MFA NATION 2016 A COMPENDIUM OF GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN CREATIVE WRITING

Page With the number of MFA programs climbing higher every year, it seems there is now a creative writing program to fit just about every aesthetic principle, curricular framework, geographic preference, and financial need. Any writer who wants to 2 pursue a graduate degree can likely find several that fit the bill—and you don’t Full-Residency necessarily need an expert to tell you which ones are the best. For five years Detailed information & Writers Magazine published the results of annual surveys of current MFA about 129 programs, students as well as data publicly released by the programs themselves. The MFA including core faculty, Index, as it came to be known, put into context the variables every prospective funding, tuition, teaching student encounters when choosing among the programs and laid the groundwork opportunities, special for the following listings. features, application fee, Comparing data sets and popularity surveys is one way to approach and ap- deadlines, and more. preciate the astonishing diversity of MFA programs in this country. Another way is to present practical, compelling details about as many programs as possible, Page and allow writers to make what is ultimately a subjective decision, determining for themselves which program attributes are most important. That is what we’ve done in the following pages. While we reached out to every known program for 34 information, only those that responded to repeated requests for information are THE MFA MAP included in these listings, which contain only details that could be verified either A regional index of by program administrators or through subsequent research conducted by Poets full- and low-residency & Writers Magazine. Those details include not only the basics of each program, programs, including a such as tuition, funding, faculty, and application fees, but also some of the more cost-of-living analysis. intangible benefits—things like reading series and visiting-writer programs, an- nual conferences and events, opportunities to work with presses and magazines Page or to teach within the greater community—the very things that often define a program’s character. As with our Grants & Awards and Conferences & Residencies sections, which 37 appear in every issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, MFA Nation is designed to Low-Residency give readers enough information for them to determine whether further research of Detailed information about a program is necessary. Those considering embarking on an MFA should always 44 programs, including carefully weigh the available options and make an informed decision based on residency location, core a personal set of priorities. The reasons we write—as well as the results—are faculty, funding, tuition, unique to each of us; the same could be said of one’s approach to a writing application fee, deadlines, education. In the end, as we’ve always said, it’s up to you to decide which one of and more. these programs is right for you. MFA PROGRAMS

POETS & WRITERS MAGAZINE ANNOUNCES application information for full- and low-residency MFA programs in , fiction, and creative nonfiction. Only programs that responded to repeated requests for information are included in the listings, which contain only details that could be verified either by program administrators or through research conducted byPoets & Writers Magazine. Before applying, first contact the program for complete guidelines as well as a checklist of required application materials and additional fees. See the MFA Map for a list of programs arranged by region. Full-Residency

Adelphi University in Garden The core faculty includes poets Kyle Arizona State University in City, Dargan and David Keplinger, fiction Tempe This two-year program, founded in writers Stephanie Grant and Richard This three-year program, founded in 2004, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, McCann, and nonfiction writer Rachel 1985, offers degrees in poetry and fic- and creative nonfiction, and accepts 8 Louise Snyder. The program hosts a tion, and accepts 10 new students each to 10 new students each year. The core year. The core faculty includes poets visiting writing series through which faculty includes poets Judith Baumel Sally Ball, Norman Dubie, Beckian Fritz writers and editors lead small workshops and Jacqueline Jones LaMon, fiction Goldberg, Cynthia Hogue, T. R. Hum- writer Martha Cooley, nonfiction writer and give public lectures and readings. mer, Alberto Ríos, and Jeannine Savard; Kermit Frazier, and fiction and nonfic- Other features include courses in liter- and fiction writers Matt Bell, Tara Ison, tion writers Catherine Chung and Igor ary journalism, poetry translation, and T. M. McNally, Melissa Pritchard, and Webb. The program hosts the reading teaching composition; the student-run Jewell Parker Rhodes. The program is series Conversations and the Soapbox literary journal Folio; the student-run associated with the Virginia G. Piper series, which brings writers to campus to online literary journal Café Américain; Center for Creative Writing, which discuss writing and contemporary politi- internships with 826DC, the Library of hosts the Distinguished Visiting Writers cal issues. Other features include the Series and the annual Desert Nights, Congress, the National Endowment for online literary journal Village of Crickets Rising Stars Conference. Other features and opportunities to meet with agents, the Arts, the PEN/Faulkner Founda- include the MFA Reading Series, the stu- editors, and arts administrators. Annual tion, Writopia Labs, and other literary dent-run literary journal Hayden’s Ferry tuition is $22,200. Up to six creative arts organizations; teaching internships Review, and opportunities to work with writing fellowships, which include a full and internships with the writing center; Four Way Books and participate in com- tuition waiver, and up to six teaching and the opportunity to earn a graduate munity outreach activities such as teach- assistantships worth $8,200 each are certificate in arts administration. Annual ing creative writing in prison. Annual available each year. Additional paid op- tuition is $27,468. Up to six half-tuition in-state tuition is $10,610; out-of-state portunities are available for work as an waivers or three three-quarter-tuition tuition is $19,530. Up to 10 teaching or office assistant or writing tutor. Submit research assistantships, which include a waivers are available each year; students application materials with a $50 applica- full tuition waiver, health benefits, and a tion fee (fee waivers are available) by the who work full-time in non-teaching $15,000 stipend each, are available each priority deadline of January 15, 2016; positions at the university are eligible year. Submit application materials with regular admissions are made thereafter for a partial tuition waiver worth $8,640 a $70 application fee by January 1, 2016. on a rolling basis. Call, e-mail, or visit each semester. To apply for a merit Call, e-mail, or visit the website for com- the website for complete requirements award, submit application materials with plete requirements and guidelines. and guidelines. a $55 application fee by January 15, Arizona State University, Creative Writ- Adelphi University, Creative Writing MFA 2016; regular admissions are made on ing Program, English Department, P.O. Program, English Department, Harvey a rolling basis. Call, e-mail, or visit the Box 870302, Tempe, AZ 85287. (480) Hall 216, 1 South Avenue, Garden City, 965-3528. Corey Campbell, Program NY 11530. (516) 877-4030. Igor Webb, website for complete requirements and guidelines. Manager. [email protected] Director. [email protected] english.clas.asu.edu/creativewriting academics.adelphi.edu/artsci/creativewriting American University, MFA Program in Boise State University in Idaho Creative Writing, CAS/Literature, Battelle American University in This three-year program, founded in Tompkins, Room 237, 4400 Massachu- , D.C. 1999, offers degrees in poetry and fic- This two- to three-year program, setts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. tion, and accepts five to six new students founded in 1980, offers degrees in 20016. (202) 885-2971. Kyle Dargan, each year. The core faculty includes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, Program Director. [email protected] poets Martin Corless-Smith and Janet and accepts 12 new students each year. www.american.edu/cas/literature/mfa Holmes, and fiction writers Brady

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Udall and Mitch Wieland. The visiting ruary 1, 2016. For regular applications, in-state tuition is $7,650; out-of-state faculty member for Fall 2015 is fiction submit materials with an $80 application tuition is $14,040. Teaching positions writer Denis Johnson; for Spring 2016, fee by February 15, 2016. Call, e-mail, or worth $3,800 per course are available visit the website for complete require- after a student’s first semester. Up to 30 the visiting faculty member will be Full-Residency Pierre Joris. The program hosts a read- ments and guidelines. departmental scholarships worth $1,000 ing series and recently held an interna- , Creative Writing Pro- to $6,000 each are available each year. tional conference on Ezra Pound. Other gram, 236 Bay State Road, Boston, MA Submit application materials with a $125 features include internships with Idaho 02215. (617) 353-2510. Catherine F. Con, application fee by January 15, 2016. Call, Review and opportunities to work with Administrative Coordinator. e-mail, or visit the website for complete Ahsahta Press. Annual in-state tuition [email protected] requirements and guidelines. and fees is $4,768; out-of-state tuition bu.edu/creativewriting Brooklyn College, English Department, and fees is $18,818. All students receive Brigham Young University in 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY either a teaching or graduate assistant- Provo, Utah 11210. (718) 951-5197. Bonnie Harris ship, which includes a full tuition waiver, MFA Administrator. This two-year program, founded in health benefits, and a $10,500 stipend. [email protected] 2009, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Submit application materials with a $65 depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/graduate and creative nonfiction, and accepts 10 application fee by January 15, 2016. Call, /mfa/geninfo.htm new students each year. The core faculty e-mail, or visit the website for complete includes poets Kimberly Johnson, Lance Brown University in requirements and guidelines. Larsen, Michael Lavers, and John Tal- Providence, Rhode Island Boise State University, English Depart- bot; fiction writers John Bennion, Chris This two-year program, founded in ment, 228 Liberal Arts Building, 1910 Crowe, and Stephen Tuttle; and nonfic- 1969, offers degrees in poetry and University Drive, Boise, ID 83725. (208) tion writers Joey Franklin and Patrick fiction, as well as cross-disciplinary art 426-7093. Mitch Wieland, Director. Madden. The program hosts a reading and digital language art, and accepts [email protected] series and an annual two-day writing 12 new students each year. The core english.boisestate.edu/mfa retreat at Capitol Reef National Park. faculty includes poets John Cayley, Boston University in Other features include writing contests Forrest Gander, Cole Swensen, and C. Massachusetts and travel funding to attend conferences. D. Wright; and fiction writers Brian This one-year program, founded in Annual tuition is $6,500 for members of Evenson, Thalia Field, Carole Maso, 2008, offers degrees in poetry and fic- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day and Meredith Steinbach. The program tion, and accepts 8 new poetry students Saints, and $13,000 for non-members. hosts the reading series Writers on and 10 new fiction students each year. All students receive a grant of at least Writing and the International Writ- Students typically take courses in the $1,000 per semester, and over 90 percent ers Project, which gives an annual summer to complete their degree. The of students receive a teaching contract yearlong fellowship to a writer who has worth $3,400 per course (students can core faculty includes poets Maggie Dietz, faced serious persecution. Annual tu- teach one course their first semester and ition is $24,136. All first-year students Karl Kirchwey, and Robert Pinsky; and two courses each subsequent semester). receive a fellowship, which includes a fiction writers Leslie Epstein, Jenni- Three to five mentorships, which include full tuition waiver, health benefits, an fer Haigh, Ha Jin, and Sigrid Nunez. one-on-one study with a faculty member, $11,500 stipend, and $2,500 of sum- The program hosts events as part of worth $4,000 each, are also available mer funding. All second-year students the Robert Lowell Memorial Reading each semester. Submit application mate- receive a teaching assistantship, which Series and the Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer rials, including GRE scores, with a $50 includes a full tuition waiver, health Series. Other features include the literary application fee by January 15, 2016. Call, benefits, and a $23,00 stipend. Submit journals and , and internships Clarion 236 e-mail, or visit the website for complete application materials with a $75 ap- with the literary journal AGNI and the requirements and guidelines. plication fee by December 15. Call, e- Favorite Poem Project. Annual tuition Brigham Young University, English De- mail, or visit the website for complete is $47,422. All students receive a full requirements and guidelines. tuition and fee waiver, health benefits, partment, 4166 JFSP, Provo, UT 84602. and a stipend of approximately $12,800 (801) 422-4292. Ed Cutler, Graduate Brown University, Literary Arts, Box 1923, in exchange for teaching undergraduate Coordinator. [email protected] Providence, RI 02912. (401) 863-3260. creative writing courses or for teaching english.byu.edu/academics/graduate-studies Lori Baker, Publicist/Archivist. at the public arts high school Boston Brooklyn College in New York [email protected] www.brown.edu/cw Arts Academy. All students also receive, This two-year program, founded in upon successful completion of a project 1974, offers degrees in poetry and fic- Butler University in proposal, a Global Fellowship, which tion, as well as playwriting, and accepts Indianapolis includes up to $5,000 to support one 30 new students each year. The core fac- This three-year program, founded in to three months of travel outside of the ulty includes poets Julie Agoos and Ben 2008, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, United States. For the Martin Luther Lerner, and fiction writers Joshua Hen- and creative nonfiction, and accepts King Fellowship, which includes health kin and Dinaw Mengestu. The program 17 new students each year. The core benefits and a stipend that covers full hosts monthly student readings and a faculty includes poets Chris Forhan and tuition and some living expenses for an reading series. Other features include the Alessandra Lynch; fiction writers Dan African American student, apply by Feb- literary journal Brooklyn Review. Annual Barden, Michael Dahlie, and Allison

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Lynn; nonfiction writers Hilene Flanz- for funding, submit application materials State University in baum and Andrew Levy; and fiction and with a $70 application fee by January 10, Long Beach nonfiction writer Susan Neville. The 2016; regular admissions are made on This two-year program, founded in program hosts the Vivian S. Delbrook a rolling basis. Call, e-mail, or visit the 1995, offers degrees in poetry and fiction Visiting Writers Series; a writers-in- website for complete requirements and and accepts 12 new students each year. residence program that brings writers guidelines. The core faculty include poets Bill Mohr, to campus to hold workshops and meet California College of the Arts, MFA Patty Seyburn, and Charles Webb; and individually with students; and both the Program in Writing, 1111 8th Street, San fiction writers Stephen Cooper, Lisa Bridge and the Writing in the Schools Francisco, CA 94107. (415) 551-9237. Glatt, Suzanne Greenberg, and Rafael program, which provide opportunities David Morini, Program Manager. Zepeda. The program hosts a visiting

Full-Residency for students to teach workshops, tutor, [email protected] writers series and the literary magazine and work in the community. Other www.cca.edu/writing Riprap. Annual in-state tuition with fees features include the press Pressgang and is $7,718; out-of-state tuition with fees is California Institute of the Arts the student-run literary magazine Booth. $16,646. No scholarships are available. in Valencia Annual tuition is $9,120. Two scholar- Teaching assistantships and positions ships worth $5,000 each for out-of-state This two-year program, founded in 1994, in the Writing Lab are available on a students; one scholarship worth $3,000 offers an open-genre degree, and accepts competitive basis. Submit application for a service scholar; up to eight teaching 15 new students each year. The core materials with a $55 application fee by assistantships worth $2,400 each; and up faculty includes poets and prose writ- January 15, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit to 17 work-study positions worth up to ers Tisa Bryant, Brian Evenson, Doug the website for complete requirements Kearney, Maggie Nelson, Janet Sarbanes, $4,500 each are available each year. All and guidelines. funding options include partial tuition Mady Schutzman, Matias Viegener, Jon Wagner, and Christine Wertheim. The California State University, MFA waivers. Submit application materials by Program, English Department, 1250 March 14, 2016. There is no application program offers concentrations in image and text, writing and performativity, and Bellflower Boulevard, Long Beach, CA fee. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for 90840. (562) 985-4225. Doris Pintscher, complete requirements and guidelines. documentary strategies; students also have the option of completing an interschool Graduate Secretary. Butler University, MFA in Creative Writ- degree with the schools of art, dance, film [email protected] ing, 4600 Sunset Avenue, Indianapolis, and video, music, or theater. The program www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/english/mfa IN 46208. (317) 940-8733. Mindy Dunn, hosts the Katie Jacobson Writer in Resi- Chapman University in Orange, Contact. [email protected] dence program, the Next Words journal California legacy.butler.edu/mfa-creative-writing and reading series, the SPRAWL reading This two-year program, founded in California College of the Arts in series, and the CalArts Community Arts 1990, offers a degree in creative writing San Francisco Partnership, which offers after-school arts and accepts 12 new students each year. This two-year program, founded in programs in local schools, community Coursework is available for poets, fiction 2000, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, centers, and social service agencies. Other writers, and nonfiction writers. The core and creative nonfiction, and accepts 20 features include the literary journal Black faculty includes poet Anna Leahy; fiction new students each year. The core faculty Clock, and opportunities to intern at Lit- writers Richard Bausch, James Blaylock, includes poets Tonya Foster and Joseph mus Press and Les Figues Press. Annual Alicia Kozameh, and Martin Nakell; and Lease; fiction writers Juvenal Acosta, tuition is $43,400. One Truman Capote nonfiction writer Tom Zoellner. The Tom Barbash, and Aimee Phan; nonfic- Literary Fellowship, which includes a program hosts the Tabula Poetica Read- tion writer Faith Adiele; and poet and full tuition waiver; 16 teaching assistant- ing Series as well as international visiting fiction writer Gloria Frym. The program ships worth $8,000 each for second-year writers who give readings and talks; and hosts a visiting writers series; a student students; two assistantships worth $5,000 cohosts WordTheater, a conference that reading series; and a writing-in-residence each; and need- and merit-based grants brings professional actors to campus to program, which brings a writer to and scholarships of up to $20,000 are read short fiction. Other features include campus each semester to hold seminars available each year. The average scholar- a fiction contest;TAB: The Journal of and workshops and give a reading. Other ship for a first-year student in Fall 2015 Poetry and Poetics; and the Pub(lishing) features include the student-run literary was $12,000. Submit application materials Crawl, through which students can meet journal Eleven Eleven; the Mentored with a $50 application fee ($60 for online with writers, editors, and agents. Annual Study program, which allows students to applicants) by the priority deadline of tuition is $15,300. Three fellowships work one-on-one with faculty members; December 1, or with a $70 application fee that include a full tuition waiver and an and opportunities to intern at Bay Area ($80 for online applicants) by January 5, $18,000 stipend; four teaching assistant- institutions and participate in community 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for ships worth $2,500 per class; and various building and social justice projects. An- complete requirements and guidelines. scholarships and internships are available nual tuition is $36,408. Up to 10 teach- California Institute of the Arts, School of each year. To be eligible for funding, ing and research assistantships worth Critical Studies, 24700 McBean Parkway, submit application materials with a $60 $2,000 each are available each year. Up Valencia, CA 91355. (661) 253-7716. Seth application fee by February 1, 2016; to four merit scholarships, diversity Blake, Admissions Coordinator. regular admissions are made on a rolling scholarships, and chair’s scholarships are [email protected] basis. E-mail or visit the website for occasionally available. To be considered writing.calarts.edu complete requirements and guidelines.

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Chapman University, English Department, One University Drive, Orange, CA 92866. Jim Blaylock, Program Experience Director. [email protected] Ask questions of current students, recent alumni, Full-Residency www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/graduate-studies /creative-writing-mfa.aspx faculty, administrators—anyone who can give you an insider’s perspective of the program—either on the Chatham University in Pittsburgh, phone or in person, during a campus visit, if possible. This two-year program, founded in 2002, offers degrees in poetry, fic- tion, and creative nonfiction, as well as children’s writing, and accepts 24 new and fiction and nonfiction writer Emily Daniel Nester. Poet Bernadette Mayer students each year. The core faculty Raboteau. Poet Thomas Sayers Ellis is a will be the visiting writer for Fall 2015. includes poets and nonfiction writers visiting faculty member for 2015–2016. The program hosts the Frequency North Heather McNaugher, Sheila Squillante, Coursework is also available in nonfic- reading series and a visiting writers se- and Sheryl St. Germain; fiction writ- tion, translation, dramatic writing, and ries. Other features include the student- ers Sherrie Flick and Sarah Shotland; children’s writing. The program hosts run online literary magazine Pine Hills and fiction and nonfiction writer Marc the Visiting Author Series; a monthly Review. Annual tuition is $13,968. Up to Nieson. The program offers additional student reading series; the TurnStyle 10 graduate assistantships worth $6,400 concentrations in food writing, nature Reading Series, in collaboration with each, given to full-time students; and two writing, publishing, teaching, and travel Brooklyn College, , and scholarships, which include a quarter- writing, the possibility for a dual-genre Queens College; and the Chinua Achebe tuition waiver, given to first-year full- or focus, and the opportunity to transi- Legacy Series and part-time students, are available each tion into Chatham University’s low- Festival, in collaboration with the col- year. Submit application materials with a residency MFA program. Other features lege’s Black Studies Program. Other $40 application fee; admissions are made include the student-run literary journal features include opportunities to work on a rolling basis. Call, e-mail, or visit Fourth River; the Words Without Walls on the literary magazines Promethean and the website for complete requirements teaching program at local correctional Fiction, teach through the Poetry Out- and guidelines. facilities; and creative writing field reach System, tutor at the college’s writ- College of Saint Rose, English Depart- seminars in various countries, such as ing center, study abroad during the sum- ment, 432 Western Avenue, Albany, NY Belize, Costa Rica, Greece, Iceland, and mer at the University of in , 12203. (518) 458-5385. Barbara Ungar, Vietnam. Annual tuition is $18,417. One take courses in digital publishing, and Contact. [email protected] fellowship, which includes a full tuition help organize the annual Poetry Festival. www.strose.edu/academics/schoolofartsand waiver; five teaching assistantships worth For full-time students, annual in-state humanities/english/english_mfa $9,000 to $10,000 each; two creative tuition is $10,130; out-of-state tuition is Colorado State University in writing fellowships worth $10,000 each; $16,380. Most students attend part-time. Fort Collins and two research assistantships worth A prize worth $5,000; two prizes worth $5,000 each are available each year. To $2,000 each; and a scholarship for a This three-year program, founded be eligible for funding, submit applica- student working in Latino/Latina stud- in 1985, offers degrees in poetry and tion materials with a $45 application fee ies, worth $3,500, are available each year. fiction, and accepts nine new students (there is no fee for online applications) Submit application materials with a $125 each year. The core faculty includes by January 15, 2016; regular admissions application fee by February 1, 2016. Call, poets Dan Beachy-Quick, Matthew are made on a rolling basis. Call, e-mail, e-mail, or visit the website for complete Cooperman, Camille Dungy, and or visit the website for complete require- requirements and guidelines. Sasha Steensen; fiction writers An- drew Altschul, Leslee Becker, and Judy ments and guidelines. City College of New York, MFA in Cre- Doenges; fiction and nonfiction writer ative Writing, English Department, NAC Chatham University, MFA Program, 1 E. J. Levy; and nonfiction writers John 6-219, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, Woodland Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15232. Calderazzo and Deborah Thompson. NY 10031. (212) 650-6694. David King, (412) 365-1190. Sheryl St. Germain, The program hosts a reading series. Graduate Programs Specialist. Program Director. Other features include internships in [email protected] [email protected] literary arts administration, literary www.chatham.edu/mfa www.ccny.cuny.edu/english/creativewriting.cfm editing, courses in creative nonfiction, City College of New York in New College of Saint Rose in Albany, and public education with journals and York City New York organizations such as the Center for This two- to three-year program, This two- to three-year program, Literary Publishing, Colorado Review, founded in 2004, offers degrees in poetry founded in 2012, offers degrees in po- and Greyrock Review. Annual in-state and fiction, and accepts approximately 30 etry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, and tuition is $11,458; out-of-state tuition is new students each year. The core faculty accepts five to six new students each year. $22,916. Five to seven graduate teach- includes poet Michelle Valladares; fiction The core faculty includes poet Barbara ing assistantships, which include a full writers Salar Abdoh and Mark Mirsky; Ungar, fiction writers Hollis Seamon tuition waiver and a $1,490 monthly poet and nonfiction writer David Groff; and Rone Shavers, and nonfiction writer stipend; one Crow-Tremblay Fellowship

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worth $2,000; one Greyrock internship in New Code 1804, 2960 Broadway, New York, worth up to $1,500; and Writing Center York City NY 10027. (212) 854-4391. William Wad- teaching positions worth $12 per hour This two- to five-year program, founded sworth, Director of Academic Adminis- are available each year. Submit applica- in 1968, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, tration. [email protected] tion materials with a $60 application fee and creative nonfiction, as well as a joint arts.columbia.edu/writing by January 1, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit concentration in literary translation, Cornell University in Ithaca, the website for complete requirements and accepts approximately 120 new New York and guidelines. students each year. The core faculty This two-year program, founded in includes poets Lucie Brock-Broido, Colorado State University, English 1967, offers degrees in poetry and fic- Timothy Donnelly, and Dorothea Department, A105 Behavioral Sciences tion, and accepts eight new students each

Full-Residency Lasky; fiction writers Donald Antrim, Building, 1773 Campus Delivery, Ft. Col- year. The core faculty includes poets Nicholas Christopher, Stacey D’Erasmo, lins, CO 80523. (970) 491-2403. Marnie Alice Fulton, Ishion Hutchinson, Joanie Deborah Eisenberg, Richard Ford, Heidi Mackowski, Robert Morgan, and Lyrae Leonard, Graduate Programs Assistant. Julavits, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Victor [email protected] Van Clief-Stefanon; and fiction writers LaValle, Sam Lipsyte, Ben Marcus, Michael Koch, J. Robert Lennon, Er- creativewriting.colostate.edu Orhan Pamuk, Simon Schama, Gary nesto Quiñonez, Stephanie Vaughn, and Columbia College Chicago in Shteyngart, and Alan Ziegler; nonfiction Helena Maria Viramontes. The program Illinois writers Hilton Als, Lis Harris, Leslie hosts the Barbara and David Zalaznick This two- to three-year program, found- Jamison, Margo Jefferson, Richard Reading Series and the First-Year MFA ed in 2011, offers degrees in poetry, fic- Locke, Phillip Lopate, and Patricia Reading Series. Other features include tion, and creative nonfiction, and accepts O’Toole; and translator Susan Bernof- the student-run literary magazine Epoch. sky. The program hosts the Creative 10 to 12 new students in each genre each Annual tuition is $29,500. All students Writing Lectures; Stalking the Essay, year. The core faculty includes poets CM receive a full tuition waiver, health ben- an annual symposium on essay writing; Burroughs, Lisa Fishman, Matthew She- efits, and a stipend in return for editorial the Nonfiction Dialogues; the Word for work on Epoch and for teaching fresh- noda, Tony Trigilio, and David Trinidad; Word Literary Translation Exchange; fiction writers Garnett Kilberg-Cohen, man undergraduate literature seminars. Life After the MFA panels; an annual Graduates can apply for two-year lecture Don De Grazia, Joseph Meno, Nami agents mixer; the Gallery student read- Mun, Samuel Park, and Alexis Pride; positions. Submit application materials ing series; and the Columbia Selects with a $95 application fee by December nonfiction writers Aviya Kushner and MFA Reading Series for alumni. Other David Lazar; poet and nonfiction writer 15. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for features include internships with literary complete requirements and guidelines. Jenny Boully; and fiction and nonfiction magazines; research assistant positions writer Sam Weller. The Elma Stuckey with established writers; the student-run Cornell University, English Department, Writer-in-Residence for 2015–2017 is Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art; 250 Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca, NY nonfiction writer T. Fleischmann. The Our Word, an organization for writers 14853. (607) 255-6800. program hosts an annual reading series of color; and Columbia Artists/Teachers, [email protected] in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. which provides students with teaching english.arts.cornell.edu/graduate/mfa Other features include opportunities to opportunities on and off campus. Annual Creighton University in Omaha, work on the literary magazines Columbia tuition is $55,356 for each of the first Nebraska Poetry Review and Punctuate; organize two years of coursework, and $4,500 for This two-year program, founded in the student-run 33 Reading Series; and each subsequent year taken to complete 2013, offers degrees in poetry and prose, participate in the Graduate Student a thesis. Up to 12 instructional positions, and accepts 12 new students each year. Instructorship Program. Annual tuition which include a full tuition waiver and an The core faculty includes poet Susan is approximately $18,000 to $23,000. Up annual salary of $24,000 for two years, Aizenberg; fiction writers David Philip to four Graduate Merit Awards, which are available each year. All students are Mullins and Mary Helen Stefaniak; include a full tuition waiver; and one eligible to apply for teaching positions and fiction and nonfiction writer Brent through the Columbia Artists/Teach- Spencer. The program hosts visiting assistantship worth $12,000 are available ers program and the Summer Program writers, editors, and literary agents. for each genre each year. Submit applica- for High School students; third-year Annual tuition is $19,200. Up to five tion materials with a $55 application fee students are eligible to apply for teaching full fellowships, which include a full by January 15, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit positions in Columbia’s undergraduate tuition waiver and an annual stipend of the website for complete requirements college, worth $11,500 each. Seventy- $11,500; and up to five half fellowships, and guidelines. five percent of students receive addition- which include a half-tuition waiver, are Columbia College Chicago, MFA Pro- al scholarship support. Using the online available each year. To be eligible for gram, Creative Writing Department, 600 submission system, submit application funding, submit application materials South Avenue, Chicago, IL materials with a $110 application fee by with a $50 application fee by March 15, 60605. (319) 369-8819. Joshua Young, January 5, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the 2016; regular admissions are made on Associate Director of Creative Writing. website for complete requirements and a rolling basis. Call, e-mail, or visit the [email protected] guidelines. website for complete requirements and www.colum.edu/academics/liberal-arts-and Columbia University, School of the Arts guidelines. -sciences/creative-writing Writing Program, 415 Dodge Hall, Mail Creighton University, MFA Program in

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Creative Writing, English Department, sites.ewu.edu/mfa take publishing courses. Annual tuition Omaha, NE 68178. (402)280-2192. Brent Emerson College in Boston, is $28,728. Eight to twelve fellowships, Spencer, Director. Massachusetts which include a full tuition waiver, are [email protected] This two- to three-year program, available each year. Teaching and re- Full-Residency creightonmfa.org founded in 1989, offers degrees in search assistantships and positions in the Eastern Washington University poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, First Year Writing Program, are available in Spokane and accepts 48 new students each on a competitive basis. Submit applica- This two-year program, founded in year. The core faculty includes poets tion materials with a $60 application fee by February 1, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit 1972, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Jonathan Aaron, Christine Casson, Gail the website for complete requirements and creative nonfiction, and accepts 30 Mazur, Pablo Medina, John Skoyles, and guidelines. new students each year. The core faculty and Daniel Tobin; fiction writers Ben includes poets Christopher Howell and Brooks, Maria Flook, Lise Haines, Emerson College, MFA Program, Depart- Jonathan Johnson, fiction writers Samuel DeWitt Henry, Kim McLarin, William ment of Writing, Literature, and Publish- Ligon and Gregory Spatz, and nonfic- Orem, Pamela Painter, Jon Papernick, ing, 120 Boylston Street, Boston, MA tion writers Natalie Kusz and Rachel Ladette Randolph, Frederick Reiken, 02116. (617) 824-8750. Shaylin Hogan, Toor. The program offers internships in Jessica Treadway, Steve Yarbrough, and Contact. [email protected] book and magazine publishing, festival Mako Yoshikawa; and nonfiction writers www.emerson.edu/academics/departments promotion, and teaching. Other features Jabari Asim, Richard Hoffman, Megan /writing-literature-publishing/creative-writing include the literary magazine Willow Marshall, Jerald Walker, and Douglas Florida Atlantic University in Springs, the press Willow Springs Edi- Whynott. The program hosts a reading Boca Raton tions, and the teaching internship pro- series, an alumni and faculty reading This three-year program, founded in gram Writers in the Community. Annual series, and the Bright Lights film series. 2004, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, in-state tuition is $10,919; out-of-state Other features include the literary and creative nonfiction, and accepts ten tuition is $25,385. Up to nine teaching journal , the student-run new students each year. The core faculty assistantships, which require teaching magazine Redivider, the online literary includes poets Becka Mara McKay, one expository writing course per semes- magazine Words Apart, and opportunities Susan Mitchell, and Mark Scroggins; ter and include a full tuition waiver and to work with local high school students fiction writers A. Papatya Bucak and a stipend of $9,000; up to nine graduate through the emersonWRITES program. Jason Schwartz; and nonfiction writers assistantships, which require teaching a Students also have the opportunity to Andrew Furman and Kate Schmitt. The discussion section for an undergradu- ate introductory literature course and include a full tuition waiver, are avail- able each year. Four graduate service appointments, which require editorial Notes and arts administration work and include an in-state tuition waiver and a stipend of $9,000, are available to second-year students each year. WICHE waivers, which confer in-state tuition status, are available each year for students from one of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education member states; and nonresident tuition scholarships, which lower out-of-state tuition to 150 percent of in-state tuition ($16,379 for 2015–2016), are available each year for out-of-state students. Independently endowed scholarships worth $300 to $3,000 each are occasionally available. Submit application materials, including GRE scores, with a $50 application fee by February 23, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for complete requirements and guidelines. Eastern Washington University, Inland Northwest Center for Writers, 668 North Riverpoint Boulevard, Suite 259, Spo- kane, WA 99202. (509) 828-1434. Pamela Russell, Program Coordinator. [email protected]

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program hosts the Off the Page Reading Series and the Lawrence Sanders Writer- in-Residence, who gives a reading and Residency teaches a weeklong workshop. Other Do you want to quit your job and/or relocate? features include courses in book arts, experimental prose, and literary transla- If not, a low-residency program might be the best fit tion; opportunities to teach community (see page 36). creative writing workshops; the student- run literary magazine Coastlines; and internships at the Palm Beach Poetry

Full-Residency Festival. For 2014–2015, annual in-state materials, including GRE scores, with a Alex Espinoza and Randa Jarrar, and tuition was $5,467; out-of-state tuition $30 application fee by January 12, 2016. nonfiction writers Steven Church and was $16,695. Approximately five to ten Call, e-mail, or visit the website for com- John Hales. The program hosts the teaching assistantships, which include plete requirements and guidelines. Fresno Poets’ Association’s reading series a full tuition waiver and a stipend from Florida International University, Creative and the annual Young Writers’ Confer- $9,000 to $12,000 each; and two Law- Writing Program, English Department, ence for high school students. Other rence Sanders fellowships, which include Biscayne Bay Campus, 3000 NE 151 features include the literary magazine the a full tuition waiver and a stipend of Street, Ac1-335, North Miami, FL 33181. Normal School, the student-run literary $12,000 for the first year of the program (305) 919-5857. Terese Campbell, Pro- journal San Joaquin Review, and the Press and $15,000 for the second and third gram Assistant. [email protected] at CSU Fresno. Annual in-state tuition year, are available. Submit application english.fiu.edu/creative-writing/mfa is $7,580; out-of-state tuition is $13,532. materials with a $30 application fee by Florida State University in Up to three one-year out-of-state tuition November 1 for the spring term, or by Tallahassee waivers; up to three teaching assistant- January 15, 2016, for the fall term. Call, ships worth approximately $10,400 each; This three-year program, founded in e-mail, or visit the website for complete up to three scholarships worth $10,000 2006, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, requirements and guidelines. each; up to three graduate assistantships and creative nonfiction, and accepts worth approximately $5,400 each; and up Florida Atlantic University, English approximately seven new students each to three scholarships worth $1,000 each Department, CU Suite 306, 777 Glades year. The core faculty includes poets Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431. (561) 297- Erin Belieu, Joann Gardner, Barbara are available each year. Additional fund- 2974. Mary Sheffield, English Graduate Hamby, James Kimbrell, David Kirby, ing and job opportunities are available on Advisor. [email protected] and Virgil Suarez; fiction writers R. M. a competitive basis. Submit application www.fau.edu/english/mfa Berry, Robert Olen Butler, Skip Horack, materials with a $55 application fee by March 1, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the Florida International University Bob Shacochis, Elizabeth Stuckey- French, and Mark Winegardner; and website for complete requirements and in North Miami guidelines. This three-year program, founded in nonfiction writer Diane Roberts. The Fresno State in California, MFA Program 1989, offers degrees in poetry, fic- program hosts a visiting reader series, which brings 15 writers to campus each in Creative Writing, English Department, tion, and creative nonfiction, as well year. Other features include the literary M/S PB98, 5245 North Backer Avenue, as screenwriting, and accepts 12 to journal . Annual in-state Fresno, CA 93740. (559) 278-1569. 15 new students each year. The core Southeast Review tuition is $8,628; out-of-state tuition is Jefferson Beavers, Contact. faculty includes poets Denise Duhamel $19,993. All students receive a teach- [email protected] and Campbell McGrath; fiction writ- ing assistantship, which includes a full www.fresnostate.edu/creativewriting ers Lynne Barrett, Debra Dean, John tuition waiver and a $12,780 stipend. Dufresne, and Les Standiford; and George Mason University in Submit application materials, including nonfiction writer Julie Marie Wade. The Fairfax, Virginia GRE scores, with a $30 application fee by program hosts the annual FIU Writers This three-year program, founded in December 17. Call, e-mail, or visit the Workshop, the monthly Writers on the website for complete requirements and 1980, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Bay Series, and the annual Lawrence guidelines. and creative nonfiction, and accepts 30 Sanders Award in Fiction ceremony. to 38 new students each year. The core Other features include the student-run Florida State University, Creative Writing faculty includes poets Jennifer Atkinson, literary journal Gulf Stream Magazine, Department, 405 Williams Building, Tal- Sally Keith, Eric Pankey, Peter Streckfus, and opportunities to contribute to Florida lahassee, FL 32306. (850) 644-4230. Erin and Susan Tichy; fiction writers Court- Book Review and participate in the Miami Belieu, Director. [email protected] ney Brkic, Stephen Goodwin, Helon Book Fair International. Annual in-state english.fsu.edu/crw Habila Ngalabak, and Susan Richards tuition is approximately $6,000; out-of- Fresno State in California Shreve; and nonfiction writers Timothy state tuition is approximately $14,100. This three-year program, founded in Denevi and Kyoko Mori. The program One Lawrence A. Sanders fellowship and 1995, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, hosts Fall for the Book, an annual book approximately seven teaching assistant- and creative nonfiction, and accepts 15 festival; and New Leaves, a weeklong ships, which include a full tuition waiver to 20 new students each year. The core series of literary events each spring. and an annual $15,500 stipend each, are faculty includes poets Corrinne Clegg Other features include the student-run available each year. Submit application Hales and Tim Skeen, fiction writers Stillhouse Press; the literary journals

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Phoebe and So to Speak; and opportuni- Program, Campus Box 44, Milledgeville, series, which brings writers to campus ties to teach at local schools through the GA 31061. (478) 445-3509. Martin Lam- to give readings and meet with students. Writers in the Schools program. Annual mon, Coordinator. [email protected] Other features include the Writer’s mfa.gcsu.edu Block student-run writing group, which

in-state tuition is $9,828; out-of-state Full-Residency tuition is $23,418. Forty-six teaching Hamline University in St. Paul, hosts student readings. Annual tuition is assistantships and four third-year fellow- Minnesota $21,456. Up to six teaching fellowships, which include a partial tuition waiver; ships, which include a full tuition waiver, This three- to five-year program, found- and one Provost Scholarship worth health benefits, and a stipend of $11,000 ed in 1994, offers degrees in poetry, $3,500 are available each year. Partial to $14,000 each, are available each year. fiction, and nonfiction, and accepts 30 tuition waivers worth $1,000 to $4,000 Submit application materials with a $65 to 35 new students each year. The core each are also available each year. Submit application fee by January 2, 2016. Call, faculty includes poets application materials with a $70 ap- e-mail, or visit the website for complete and Katrina Vandenberg; fiction writers plication fee by February 15, 2016. Call, requirements and guidelines. John Brandon, Sheila O’Connor, and George Mason University, Creative Mary François Rockcastle; and nonfic- e-mail, or visit the website for complete Writing, 4400 University Drive, MS 3E4, tion writers Patricia Weaver Francisco requirements and guidelines. Fairfax, VA 22030. (703) 993-1180. Alex and Angela Pelster-Wiebe. The program Hofstra University, Office of Graduate Walsh, Graduate Coordinator. hosts the Water~Stone Review Summer Admission, 105 Memorial Hall, 126 Hof- [email protected] Writing Workshop, a reading series, and stra University, Hempstead, NY 11549. creativewriting.gmu.edu/programs/la-mfa-cw master classes. Other features include the (516) 463-5397. Erik Brogger, Program Georgia College & State literary magazine Water~Stone Review, Director. University in Milledgeville the graduate literary magazine rock, [email protected] www.hofstra.edu/mfa This three-year program, founded in paper, scissors, and opportunities to intern 2002, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, at presses and literary organizations Hollins University in Roanoke, and creative nonfiction, and accepts in the Twin Cities, including Coffee Virginia approximately 10 new students each House Press, Graywolf Press, Milkweed This two-year program, founded in year. The core faculty includes poets Editions, and the Loft Literary Center. 1959, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Alice Friman, Martin Lammon, and Annual tuition is $8,752. Up to five and creative nonfiction, and accepts 12 Laura Newbern; fiction writers Aubrey teaching assistantships worth $2,000 new students each year. The core faculty Hirsch and Peter Selgin; and nonfiction each; four Water~Stone Review gradu- includes poet Thorpe Moeckel; fiction writer Allen Gee. The program hosts ate assistantships worth $1,000 each; writer Josh Barkan; and poets, fiction a visiting writers series, which brings one quarter-tuition waiver for a writer writers, and nonfiction writers R. H. W. in six writers to give readings and meet of color; one scholarship worth $2,000; Dillard, Cathryn Hankla, Jeanne Larsen, with students each year. Other features and one scholarship worth $1,000 for a and Elizabeth Poliner. The Spring 2016 include the international literary journal student who has demonstrated financial writer-in-residence is fiction writer Tom Arts & Letters, a student reading series, need and excellent writing ability are Drury. The program hosts the Jackson and the Writers in the Schools program available each year. Ten percent of stu- Center for Creative Writing, which of- with Georgia College Early College. For dents receive a quarter-tuition waiver. To fers a reading series and an annual liter- first-year students, annual in-state tuition be eligible for funding, submit applica- ary festival. Other features include free is $5,184; out-of-state tuition is $18,486. tion materials by February 1, 2016; the registration to the Roanoke Regional regular application deadline is March 1, Twenty-one MFA graduate assistantships, Writers Conference; the student-run which include a full tuition waiver and an 2016. There is no application fee. Call, literary journal Hollins Critic; and op- $8,600 stipend each, are available each e-mail, or visit the website for complete portunities to judge national writing year; up to seven graduate assistantships requirements and guidelines. contests for high school and undergradu- are available to first-year students each Hamline University, Creative Writing Pro- ate writers. Annual tuition is $21,264. All year. Up to 14 teaching assistantships, grams, MS-A1730, 1536 Hewitt Avenue, students receive a graduate assistantship which include a full tuition waiver and an St. Paul, MN 55104. (651) 523-2047. Kelly or Gager Fellowship. Graduate assis- $8,600 stipend each, are available each Krebs, Contact. [email protected] tants, who work to support the program year to second- and third-year students hamline.edu/cla/mfa and conduct community outreach, who received MFA graduate assistant- Hofstra University in receive a full tuition waiver and a $7,000 ships during their first year. Non-MFA Hempstead, New York stipend; Gager fellows receive a full graduate assistantships, which include a This two-year program, founded in tuition waiver and financial support for full tuition waiver and a stipend of ap- 2011, offers degrees in poetry, fic- travel and research. Teaching fellowships proximately $4,300 to $5,300 each, are tion, and creative nonfiction, as well as are available for second-year students. also available each year. Submit applica- playwriting, and accepts 8 to 10 new Submit application materials with a $40 tion materials with a $40 application fee students each year. The core faculty application fee by January 6, 2016. Call, ($35 for online applications) by February includes poet Phillis Levin, fiction writer e-mail, or visit the website for complete 1, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the website Martha McPhee, nonfiction writer Kelly application requirements and guidelines. for complete requirements and guide- McMasters, and fiction and nonfiction Hollins University, Graduate Program in lines. writer Julia Markus. The program hosts Creative Writing, Graduate Center, P.O. Georgia College & State University, MFA the Great Writers, Great Readings Box 9603, Roanoke, VA 24020. (540)

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362-6575. [email protected] available each year. Submit application dents receive a fellowship or a teaching www.hollins.edu/grad/eng_writing materials with a $125 application fee by or editorial assistantship, which includes Hunter College in New York February 1, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit a 90 percent tuition waiver and a stipend City the website for complete requirements of $15,000 to $20,000. Additional fellow- and guidelines. ship support is available for low-income, This two-year program, founded in Hunter College, MFA Office, 695 Park minority, and first-generation students. 1999, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Submit application materials, including and memoir, and accepts 18 to 21 new Avenue, New York, NY 10065. (212) 772- 5164. [email protected] GRE scores, with a $55 application fee by students each year. The core faculty January 2, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the www.hunter.cuny.edu/creativewriting includes poets Catherine Barnett, Donna website for complete requirements and Masini, and Tom Sleigh; fiction writ- Indiana University in

Full-Residency guidelines. ers Peter Carey, Claire Messud, Colum Bloomington Indiana University, Creative Writing Ad- McCann, and Roxana Robinson; and This three-year program, founded missions, 1020 East Kirkwood Avenue, memoirists Kathryn Harrison, Saïd in 1980, offers degrees in poetry and Ballantine Hall, Room 442, Blooming- Sayrafiezadeh, and Alexandra Styron. fiction, and accepts eight new students ton, IN 47405. (812) 855-9539. Emily The program hosts the Distinguished each year. The core faculty includes DeDad, Administrative Assistant. Writers Series. Annual in-state tuition is poets Catherine Bowman, Stacey Lynn [email protected] $7,832; out-of-state tuition is $14,222. Brown, Ross Gay, and Adrian Matejka; iub.edu/~mfawrite Up to twelve Hertog Fellowships, which and fiction writers Alyce Miller, Jacinda State University in Ames require research work for an established Townsend, and Samrat Upadhyay. fiction or nonfiction writer; and up to six Fiction writer Elizabeth Eslami is the This three-year program, founded in Norma Lubetsky Friedman Scholarships, visiting faculty member in 2015–2016. 2006, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, which require work for an established The program hosts readings, master and creative nonfiction, as well as drama, poet or editor, worth $2,000 to $5,000 classes, and the annual Indiana Univer- all with an environmental focus, and each, are available each year. Up to 20 sity Writers Conference. Other features accepts 10 new students each year. The core faculty includes poets Debra Mar- teaching assistantships worth $3,500 to include the student-run literary journal quart and Mary Swander, fiction writers $4,000 per semester, and internships Indiana Review and travel opportunities K. L. Cook and David Zimmerman, and with organizations and publications such through programs like Writers in the nonfiction writer Barbara Haas. The as the Threepenny Review and Graywolf World. Annual in-state tuition is $9,038; program hosts a guest speaker series and Press, worth $2,000 to $5,000 each, are out-of-state tuition is $25,878. All stu- an annual symposium. Other features include Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment, interdisciplinary course- work, and environmental field experi- Notes ence. Annual in-state tuition is $8,130; out-of-state tuition is $21,054. Eight to ten teaching assistantships and one Pearl Hogrefe Fellowship, which include a full tuition waiver and a $16,200 stipend each, are available each year. Submit application materials, including GRE scores, with a $60 application fee by January 5, 2016. Visit the website for complete requirements and guidelines. Iowa State University, English Depart- ment, 206 Ross Hall, Ames, IA 50011. Debra Marquart, Professor. [email protected] www.engl.iastate.edu/graduate-students Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland This two-year program, founded in 1947, offers degrees in poetry and fic- tion, and accepts eight new students each year. The core faculty includes poets James Arthur, John Irwin, Dora Malech, Mary Jo Salter, and David Yezzi; and fiction writers Matthew Klam, Brad Leithauser, Alice McDermott, Jean McGarry, and Eric Puchner. The program hosts the President’s Reading

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Series, the Turnbull Lecture Series, and cross-genre writer John High; poet and Director of Creative Writing. the Tudor & Stuart Graduate Reading prose writer Lewis Warsh; and fiction [email protected] Series. Annual tuition is $48,710. All stu- and cross-genre writer . www.lsu.edu/hss/english/graduate_program dents receive a full tuition waiver, health The program hosts visiting writers, guest Manhattanville College in Full-Residency benefits, and a teaching fellowship worth lectures, readings, publishing panels, and Purchase, New York $30,000 each year. Submit application intensive workshops with guest artists. This two-year program, founded in materials, including GRE scores, with a Other features include the student-run 2012, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, $75 application fee by January 15, 2016. literary journal Brooklyn Paramount and and creative nonfiction, as well as cross- Call, e-mail, or visit the website for com- the online journal visceral brooklyn. An- genre, and accepts 12 to 15 new students plete requirements and guidelines. nual tuition is $20,790. Fifteen teaching each year. The core faculty includes po- assistantships and six to seven teaching Johns Hopkins University, Writing Semi- ets Mark Nowak and Camille Rankine; fellowships, which include a six-credit nars, 3400 North Charles Street, Gilman fiction writers Fatin Abbas, Jeff Bens, tuition waiver and a monthly stipend; Hall 81, Baltimore, MD 21218. (410) 516- and Neela Vaswani; and nonfiction writ- and 10 MFA scholarships worth $5,000 6286. Yvonne Gobble, Administrative er Joanna Clapps Herman. The program each are available each year. Up to three Coordinator. [email protected] hosts the annual Summer Writers’ Week research fellowships, which include a writingseminars.jhu.edu and Fall Writers’ Weekend, and the stipend, are also occasionally available. Kingston University in England Submit application materials with a $50 reading series Meet the Writers, which This four-year program, founded in application fee by February 15, 2016. features interdisciplinary artists. Other 2009, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Call, e-mail, or visit the website for com- features include the student-run Manhat- and creative nonfiction, as well as play- plete requirements and guidelines. tanville Review. Annual tuition is $13,590. writing and screenwriting, and accepts 15 Three Writing Center Fellowships, Long Island University in Brooklyn, MFA new students each year. The core faculty three editorial positions at Manhattanville Creative Writing Program, 1 Univer- includes poets Oli Hazzard and Hannah Review, one position as an MFA Program sity Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11201. (718) Lowe; fiction writers Adam Baron, Diran Assistant, and other positions within 488-1092. Jessica Hagedorn, Director. Adebayo, and James Miller; and fiction the college, worth a third-tuition waiver [email protected] and nonfiction writers Meg Jensen and each, are available each year. Admissions www.liu.edu/brooklyn/mfaincreativewriting Wendy Vaizey. The program hosts a are made on a rolling basis; there is no reading series, a writers-in-residence Louisiana State University in application fee. Call, e-mail, or visit the program, a seminar series, master classes, Baton Rouge website for complete requirements and and opportunities to meet with agents, This three-year program, founded in guidelines. editors, and publishers. Other features 1985, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Manhattanville College, MFA in Creative include the literary magazine Ripple, and and creative nonfiction, as well as drama Writing Program, 2900 Purchase Street, opportunities to teach undergraduates and screenwriting, and accepts seven new Purchase, NY 10577. (914) 323-5239. at the university. Annual tuition for Eu- students each year. Students are required Mark Nowak, Program Director. ropean Union (EU) residents is £5,900; to take coursework in more than one tuition for non-EU residents is £13,000 [email protected] genre. The core faculty includes poets mville.edu/mfa (approximately $20,280). Two Hilary Lara Glenum and Laura Mullen, fiction Mantel awards, each worth £10,000 writers Jennifer Davis and James Wilcox, McNeese State University in (approximately $15,600) over two years, and nonfiction writer Joshua Wheeler. Lake Charles, Louisiana are available each year to U.S. students. The program hosts the Underpass This three-year program, founded For admission into the 2016–2017 year, Readings and the annual literary festival in 1981, offers degrees in poetry and submit application materials by August Delta Mouth. Other features include the fiction, and accepts eight new students 31, 2016. There is no application fee. student-run literary journal New Delta each year. The core faculty includes poet E-mail or visit the website for complete Review, and opportunities to participate Amy Fleury, and fiction writers John guidelines and requirements. in the Mardi Gras Conference and work Griswold and Christopher Lowe. The Kingston University, Creative Writing with Readers & Writers and South- program hosts visiting poets and writers MFA, London Penhryn Road, Kingston ern Review. Annual in-state tuition is who meet with students. Other features Upon Thames, Surrey KT12EE, England. $10,474; out-of-state tuition is $27,694. include editorial opportunities with James Miller, Contact. All students receive a teaching assistant- McNeese Review. Annual in-state tuition [email protected] ship or an editorial fellowship with New is $7,569; out-of-state tuition is $11,075. www.kingston.ac.uk/postgraduate-course Delta Review or Southern Review, which All students receive a teaching assistant- /creative-writing-mfa include a full tuition waiver and a stipend ship, which includes a full tuition waiver Long Island University in of $16,500 to $17,000. Submit applica- and a $6,300 stipend. Submit application Brooklyn, New York tion materials, including GRE scores, materials, including GRE scores, by Feb- This two- to three-year program, with a $50 application fee by January 15, ruary 21, 2016. There is no application founded in 2007, offers degrees in 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for fee. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, complete requirements and guidelines. complete requirements and guidelines. as well as cross-genre and playwriting, Louisiana State University, English De- McNeese State University, English and and accepts three new students each partment, 211A Allen Hall, Baton Rouge, Foreign Languages, Lake Charles, LA year. The core faculty includes poet and LA 70803. (225) 578-3049. Laura Mullen, 70609. (337) 475-5325. Jacob Blevins,

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Program Director. with the Harry Smith Print Shop and the tuition is $4,941; out-of-state tuition is [email protected] Naropa Writing Center. Annual tuition $15,107. Six to ten three-year graduate www.mfa.mcneese.edu is approximately $25,000. Ginsberg, assistantships, worth $17,000 each; and Minnesota State University in Hollo, and Waldman fellowships, which up to three tuition fellowships, worth a Mankato include a full tuition waiver, a $5,000 full tuition waiver for two to three years, This two- to three-year program, scholarship, and a $3,000 stipend; Ber- are available each year. Submit applica- founded in 1995, offers degrees in rigan, Creeley, and Kerouac scholarships tion materials with a $40 application fee poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, worth $2,000 each; 15 graduate instruc- by January 15, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit and accepts 20 new students each year. tor positions, which include a stipend; the website for complete requirements The core faculty includes poets Candace seven graduate assistantships with the and guidelines. Full-Residency Black and Richard Robbins; fiction writ- Naropa Writing Center worth up to New Mexico State University, English ers Geoff Herbach, Diana Joseph, and $7,000 each; graduate assistantships with Department, P.O. Box 30001, MSC 3E, Roger Sheffer; and nonfiction writer the Jack Kerouac School worth up to Las Cruces, NM 88003. (575) 646-3931. Richard Terrill. The program hosts the $7,000 each; four Zora Neale Hur- Carmen Giménez Smith, Director. Good Thunder Reading Series, which ston Scholarships, which include one [email protected] invites eight visiting writers to campus week of tuition at the Summer Writing english.nmsu.edu/graduate-programs/m-f-a each year. Other features include the Program; one Award -creative-writing student-run reading series Writers worth $3,000; one Kari Edwards Award worth $2,700; Charles B. Edison Jinpa in New York Bloc, and the student-run journal Blue City . Annual tuition is $6,088. Scholarships worth $2,200 each; W. E. Earth Review This two-year program, founded in Approximately 13 teaching and other as- B. DuBois Scholarships worth $2,000 1996, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, sistantships, which include a full tuition each; and Naropa Honor Scholarships and creative nonfiction, as well as writing waiver and a stipend of $9,200 for the and Naropa Presidential Scholarships for children, and accepts 90 new students teaching assistantships or up to $10,000 worth $1,500 to $5,500 each are avail- each year. The core faculty includes for the other assistantships, are available able each year. To be eligible for funding, poets Mark Bibbins, Elaine Equi, Hettie each year. Submit application materials submit application materials with a $60 Jones, , Robert Polito, with a $40 application fee by February application fee by December 4; regular and Laurie Sheck; fiction writers Ann 1, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the website admissions are made on a rolling basis. Hood, Shelley Jackson, Luis Jaramillo, for complete requirements and guide- Call, e-mail, or visit the website for com- James Lasdun, Patrick McGrath, Sigrid lines. plete requirements and guidelines. Nunez, Dale Peck, John Reed, Helen Naropa University, Jack Kerouac School Minnesota State University, English Schulman, Darcey Steinke, Stephen of Disembodied Poetics, 2130 Arapahoe Department, 230 Armstrong Hall, Wright, and Tiphanie Yanique; and Avenue, Boulder, CO 80302. (303) 546- Mankato, MN 56001. (507) 389-1354. nonfiction writers Susan Cheever, John 3508. Michelle Naka Pierce, Dean. Richard Robbins, Program Director. Freeman, Zia Jaffrey, Suzannah Lessard, [email protected] [email protected] Honor Moore, Benjamin Taylor, and www.naropa.edu/academics/jks/grad/writing-and english.mnsu.edu/cw/cwmfa.html Brenda Wineapple. The program hosts -poetics-mfa/index.php Naropa University in Boulder, weekly readings, lectures, forums, and Colorado New Mexico State University in public programs with agents, editors, This two-year program, founded in Las Cruces publishers, teachers, writers, and partner 1974, offers an open-genre degree with This three-year program, founded literary organizations like the Academy courses in poetry, prose, and cross-genre in 2001, offers degrees in poetry and of American Poets, Cave Canem, the work, and accepts 24 new students fiction, and accepts eight new students Community of Literary Magazines and each year. The core faculty includes each year. The core faculty includes Publishers, the National Book Critics poets and prose writers Junior Burke, poets Carmen Giménez Smith, Richard Circle, the National Book Foundation, J’Lyn Chapman, Bhanu Kapil, Michelle Greenfield, and Connie Voisine; and fic- and Publishing Triangle. Other features Naka Pierce, Andrea Rexilius, Andrew tion writers Rus Bradburd, Casey Gray, include the student- and alumni-run Schelling, and Anne Waldman. The and Lily Hoang. The visiting faculty literary journal LIT; Freeman’s Journal, program hosts the [DIS]EMBODIED for 2014–2017 is fiction writer Lee K. published in collaboration with Grove POETICS Conference; Ginsberg Visiting Abbott. The program hosts a biweekly Press; over 30 free supplemental short Fellow events; the Jack Kerouac School reading series, which brings writers to courses; and the Writing & Publishing Symposium; the Scalapino Lecture in campus for readings and workshops; Lab, which offers opportunities to work Innovative Poetics; the What Where Se- and an annual hunger-benefit reading with New York publishers and literary ries; and the Summer Writing Program, through the outreach organization La organizations to gain hands-on skills in a monthlong colloquium of faculty and Sociedad para las Artes. Other features multi-platform narrative and production. visiting writers who teach workshops include the literary journal Puerto del Sol, Annual tuition is $28,440. All students and give lectures and readings. Other the online arts journal DIN Magazine, receive a departmental merit scholarship, features include the student-run literary internships at Apostrophe Books and which covers up to a quarter of tuition. journal Bombay Gin; the student-run Noemi Press, and opportunities to teach Teaching assistantships worth $4,500 online multimedia poetics journal Some- at local schools through the Writers in each semester are available to second- thing on Paper; and opportunities to work the Schools program. Annual in-state year students on a competitive basis.

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Three yearlong research assistantships worth $9,000 each and three program assistant positions worth $9,000 each are Funding also available to second-year students. Determine how much money, if any, you’re willing to Full-Residency Submit application materials with a $50 application fee by January 15, 2016. Call, spend on your degree. Then find out to what extent e-mail, or visit the website for complete the program supports its students financially, either requirements and guidelines. with fellowships or teaching assistantships. Do you The New School, School of Writing, 66 really want to go into debt for an MFA? West 12th Street, Room 504, New York, NY 10011. (212) 229-5611. Luis Jaramillo, Director of Creative Writing. [email protected] North Carolina State University Giffels; poet and nonfiction writer Phil newschool.edu/writing in Raleigh Brady; poet and fiction writer Robert in New This two-year program, founded in Miltner; and fiction and nonfiction writ- York City 2005, offers degrees in poetry and fic- er Varley O’Connor. The program hosts This two-year program, founded in tion, and accepts 12 to 14 new students a visiting writers series and a reading 1996, offers degrees in poetry and fic- each year. The core faculty includes series. Other features include the Cleve- tion, and accepts 40 to 60 new students poets John Balaban and Dorianne Laux, land State University Poetry Center, each year. The core faculty includes and fiction writers Wilton Barnhardt, the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State poets Anne Carson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Belle Boggs, and John Kessel. The University, the Youngstown State Uni- Sharon Olds, and Matthew Rohrer; visiting faculty members for 2015–2016 versity Poetry Center, and the literary and fiction writers Nathan Englander, are poets Eduardo C. Corral and Vievee magazines Rubbertop Review and Whiskey Jonathan Safran Foer, Zadie Smith, Francis. The program hosts the NC Island. Annual tuition varies by campus; , and Chuck Wachtel. State Literary Readings Series. Annual in-state tuition is approximately $7,000 The program hosts a reading series, the in-state tuition is $7,852; out-of-state to $10,000, and out-of-state tuition is student-run Emerging Writers Series, tuition is $21,951. All students receive approximately $12,000 to $18,000. Up and a master-class series. Other features a graduate teaching assistantship, which to 15 assistantships, which include a full include the student-run literary journal includes a full tuition waiver, health tuition waiver and a stipend of $7,000 Washington Square, and opportunities benefits, and an annual $12,000 stipend. to $10,200 each, are available at all four to meet with agents and editors. An- Submit application materials, including campuses each year. Submit application nual tuition is approximately $26,000. GRE scores, with a $75 application fee by materials with an application fee ($30 All students receive a departmental February 1, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit for State University, $40 for fellowship, which includes a half- to the website for complete requirements Youngstown State University, and $45 full tuition waiver, and a one-semester and guidelines. for and University teaching position in their second year North Carolina State University, English of Akron) by January 15, 2016. Call, worth approximately $5,000. Fellow- Department, 221 Tompkins Hall, Cam- e-mail, or visit the website for complete ships worth approximately $13,000 or requirements and guidelines. $26,000 each are available each year. pus Box 8105, Raleigh, NC 27695. (919) Master of Fine Arts, Up to 10 Goldwater Fellowships, which 515-4153. Shervon Cassim, Assistant require teaching long-term residents of Director. [email protected] English Department, Youngstown the Coler Hospital; up to five Starworks english.chass.ncsu.edu/graduate/mfa State University, 1 University Plaza, Fellowships, which require teaching Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Youngstown, OH 44555. (330) 941- children at hospitals; and Arts in Akron, Cleveland, Kent, 1650. Steven Reese, Program Director. up to three Veterans Writing Workshop and Youngstown [email protected] www.neomfa.org Fellowships, which require teaching a This three-year program, founded in veterans writing workshop, and include 2005, offers degrees in poetry, fic- Northern Arizona University in a full tuition waiver and a stipend of ap- tion, and creative nonfiction, as well as Flagstaff proximately $13,000 each, are available playwriting, and accepts 27 new students This two-year program, founded in to second-year students. Submit applica- each year. The program is a consortium 2012, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, tion materials, including GRE scores, of Cleveland State University, Kent and creative nonfiction, and accepts up with a $100 application fee by December State University, University of Akron, to 18 new students each year. The core 18. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for and Youngstown State University; faculty includes poet and nonfiction writ- complete requirements and guidelines. students enroll at one university but can er Nicole Walker; fiction writers Ann New York University, Lillian Vernon Cre- take classes at all four. The core faculty Cummins and Allen Woodman; fiction ative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street, includes poets Mary Biddinger, William and nonfiction writers Jane Armstrong, New York, NY 10011. (212) 998-8816. Greenway, Caryl Pagel, Craig Paulenich, Lawrence Lenhart, and Erin Stalcup; Zachary Sussman, Graduate Program and Catherine Wing; fiction writers and poet, fiction writer, and nonfiction Manager. [email protected] Chris Bazark, Imad Rahman, and Eric writer Justin Bigos. The program hosts www.cwp.fas.nyu.edu Wasserman; nonfiction writer David the Narrow Chimney Reading Series

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and the NonfictioNOW Conference, Ohio State University in tuition is $2,352; out-of-state tuition is and offers opportunities for a cross- Columbus $9,429. Up to 15 teaching assistantships, genre thesis. Other features include the This three-year program, founded in which include full tuition waivers and student-run Thin Air Magazine. Annual 1992, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, an annual stipend of $11,183; and two in-state tuition is $8,710; out-of-state tu- and creative nonfiction, and accepts ap- scholarships worth $1,000 to $2,000 each ition is $20,348. Ten to twelve graduate proximately 12 new students each year. are available each year. To be eligible for teaching assistantships, which include a The core faculty includes poets Kathy funding, submit application materials full tuition waiver and a $13,100 stipend Fagan and Andrew Hudgins, and fiction with a $50 application fee by January 15, each, and two to four additional tuition and nonfiction writers Michelle Herman 2016; the regular application deadline is waivers are available each year. To apply and Lee Martin. The visiting faculty for March 1, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the

Full-Residency for a graduate teaching assistantship, 2015–2016 are poets Maggie Smith and website for complete requirements and submit application materials with a $65 Marcus Jackson and fiction and nonfic- guidelines. application fee by February 1, 2016; tion writer Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza- Oklahoma State University, Creative regular admissions are made on a rolling Vanegas. The program hosts a Visiting Writing Program, English Department, basis. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for Writers Series, which brings writers to 205 Morrill Hall, Stillwater, OK 74078. complete requirements and guidelines. campus for weekend-long workshops; (405) 744-9469. Brenda Maxwell, As- and offers cross-disciplinary workshops, sistant to the Graduate Coordinator. Northern Arizona University, English De- a university-wide multidisciplinary semi- [email protected] partment, Box 6032, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. nar for artists, and seminars in playwrit- english.okstate.edu/programs/creative-writing (928) 523-6207. Nicole Walker, Assistant ing, screenwriting, and publishing. Other Old Dominion University in Professor. [email protected] features include the student-run literary Norfolk, Virginia nau.edu/englishmfa magazine Journal and the Writers’ Guild, This three-year program, founded in Northern Michigan University a student-run organization that spon- sors events throughout the year. Annual 1994, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, in Marquette and creative nonfiction, and accepts in-state tuition is approximately $12,500; This three-year program, founded in seven to twelve new students each year. out-of-state tuition is approximately 2000, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, The core faculty includes poets Luisa A. $32,000. All students receive either a and creative nonfiction, and accepts Igloria and Tim Seibles; fiction writ- graduate teaching associateship worth six new students each year. The core ers John McManus, Janet Peery, and $16,000 each year; or a fellowship, worth faculty includes poets Austin Hummell Sheri Reynolds; and nonfiction writers $20,800 in the first year followed by a and Patricia Killelea; fiction writers Blake Bailey and Michael Pearson. The graduate teaching associateship, worth Jon Billman, Jennifer A. Howard, and program offers a writer-in-residence $16,000 each year, in the second and program, which brings writers to campus Monica McFawn; and nonfiction writers third year. All associateships and fellow- to work one-on-one with students; a stu- Matthew Gavin Frank, Josh MacIvor- ships also include a full tuition waiver dent reading series; and opportunities to Andersen, and Rachel May. The and partial health benefits. Submit ap- take non-creative writing courses, assist program hosts a visiting writers series plication materials with a $60 application in the annual Old Dominion University and a monthly graduate student read- fee by December 11. Call, e-mail, or visit Literary Festival, and present papers and ing. Other features include the literary the website for complete requirements give readings at the English depart- journal Passages North, summer research and guidelines. grants, and travel funding. Annual in- ment’s spring conference. Other features Ohio State University, English Depart- include the student-run online journal state tuition is approximately $7,584; ment, 421 Denney Hall, 164 West 17th out-of-state tuition is approximately Barely South Review, and opportunities to Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210. (614) facilitate workshops in the community $10,912. Twenty teaching assistantships, 292-2242. Tammy Carl, Academic Pro- which include a full tuition waiver and an through the Writers-in-Community gram Coordinator. [email protected] Program. Annual in-state tuition is annual $8,898 stipend each, are available english.osu.edu/grad/mfa $8,352; out-of-state tuition is $20,880. each year. Graduate assistantships with Oklahoma State University in Up to two Perry Morgan Fellowships, Passages North, the Writing Center, and Stillwater which include a full tuition waiver and the Center for Native American Studies, This three-year program, founded in a stipend of approximately $11,000, which include a full tuition waiver and are available for first-year students; up an annual $8,898 stipend each, are oc- 2009, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, and accepts 10 to 11 graduate, research, and teaching casionally available. Submit application new students each year. The core faculty fellowships, which include a full tuition materials with a $50 application fee by includes poet Lisa Lewis and fiction waiver and an annual $10,000 stipend, February 1, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit writers Toni Graham and Aimee Parki- are available each year. Submit applica- the website for complete requirements son. Poet Trey Moody and nonfiction tion materials, including GRE scores, and guidelines. writer Sarah Beth Childers are visiting with a $50 application fee by February 1, Northern Michigan University, 1401 Pr- faculty for 2015–2016. The program 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for esque Isle Avenue, Marquette, MI 49855. hosts visiting writers and a reading and complete application requirements and (906) 227-1750. Jennifer A. Howard, lecture series. Other features include op- guidelines. Director. [email protected] portunities to work on the literary maga- Old Dominion University, English nmu-english-gradprograms.com/mfa-program zine Cimarron Review. 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Letters, Hampton Boulevard, Norfolk, administrative and editorial positions are and the Poetry Society of America. VA 23529. (757) 683-3991. John also available. Submit application materi- Other features include the literary maga- McManus, Graduate Program Director. als, including GRE scores, with a $60 zine Ozone Park Journal, and the Loose [email protected] application fee by December 30. E-mail Translations award series for a translated Full-Residency al.odu.edu/english/mfacw or visit the website for complete require- book, cosponsored by Hanging Loose Oregon State University in ments and guidelines. Press. Annual in-state tuition is $7,650; Corvallis Purdue University, English Department, out-of-state tuition is $14,040. The Irma This two- to three-year program, found- 500 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN Long Scholarship, which includes a full ed in 2002, offers degrees in poetry, fic- 47907. Brian Leung, Director. out-of-state tuition waiver; the Girro tion, and creative nonfiction, and accepts [email protected] Cestaro Scholarship, which includes 14 new students each year. The core www.cla.purdue.edu/english/creativewriting a partial tuition waiver; and the Paper faculty includes poets David Biespiel, Queens College in Flushing, Lantern Lit Fellowship for a fiction Karen Holmberg, and Jennifer Rich- New York writer, which requires an internship ter; fiction writers Nick Dybek, Susan with Paper Lantern Lit and includes a This two- to three-year program, Jackson Rodgers, Marjorie Sandor, and half-tuition waiver and a $1,000 stipend, founded in 2007, offers degrees in Keith Scribner; and nonfiction writers are available each year. Second- and poetry, prose, and translation, as well as Elena Passarello and Justin St. Germain. third-year students can apply for paid playwriting, and accepts 10 new students The program hosts the Visiting Writ- teaching positions in the English depart- each year. The core faculty includes ers Series and the Literary Northwest ment. Submit application materials with poets Nicole Cooley and ; Series, and offers the Stone Award for a $125 application fee by February 15, Lifetime Literary Achievement. Annual fiction writer Maaza Mengiste; nonfic- tion writer John Weir; translator Ammiel 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for in-state tuition is $12,150; out-of-state complete requirements and guidelines. tuition is $20,952. All students receive a Alcalay; and poet and translator Roger Queens College, CUNY, Creative Writing teaching assistantship, which includes a Sedarat. Poet and translator Matvei and Literary Translation, English Depart- full tuition waiver, partial health benefits, Yankelevich is a visiting professor for and a $12,000 stipend each year. Submit 2015–2016. The program hosts the ment, 65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Flush- application materials with a $60 applica- Trends in Translation event series and ing, NY 11367. (718) 997-4671. Nicole tion fee by January 6, 2016. Call, e-mail, produces programs and collaborations Cooley, MFA Director. or visit the website for complete require- with Cave Canem, the Flea Theater, the [email protected] ments and guidelines. Louis Armstrong House and Museum, www.qc.cuny.edu/creative_writing Oregon State University, MFA Program, School of Writing, Literature, and Film, 238 Moreland Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331. (541) 737-1658. Susan Jackson Rodgers, Notes MFA Director. [email protected] oregonstate.edu/cla/wlf/mfa Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana This three-year program, founded in 1987 offers degrees in poetry and fiction, and accepts eight new students each year. The core faculty includes poets Mari- anne Boruch, Bob Hicok, and Donald Platt; and fiction writers Roxane Gay, Brian Leung, and Sharon Solwitz. The program hosts a reading series, which also brings two visiting writers to campus each year to work independently with students. Other features include the student-run literary journal Sycamore Review and opportunities to teach work- shops in the community at libraries and other local venues through the Loose- leaf Writing Workshop Series. Annual in-state tuition is $10,002; out-of-state tuition is $28,804. All students receive a teaching assistantship, which includes a full tuition waiver and a stipend of ap- proximately $14,000. Four two-year paid

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Rosemont College in materials with a $65 application fee by writers Rosemary Graham and Lysley Pennsylvania January 20, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit Tenorio; and nonfiction writers Marilyn This two- to three-year program, the website for complete requirements Abildskov and Wesley Gibson. Students founded in 2004, offers degrees in po- and guidelines. can apply to take classes in an alternate etry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, and , Armitage Hall, 4th genre in the third year of the program accepts approximately 15 new students Floor, 311 North Fifth Street, Camden, NJ to receive a dual-genre degree. The each year. The core faculty includes 08102. (856) 225-6121. Dee Jonczak, Sec- program hosts a reading series, a craft poets Blythe Davenport and Christine retary. [email protected] conversation series, a graduate-student Salvatore-Smith; fiction writers Randall mfa.camden.rutgers.edu reading series, and three annual panels on teaching, publishing, and life after the Brown, Carmen Machado, and Carla Rutgers University in Newark,

Full-Residency MFA. Other features include funding to Spataro; and nonfiction writers Richard New Jersey Bank and Amy Punt. The program hosts attend literary conferences and symposia. This two- to three-year program, monthly readings, free craft and profes- Annual tuition is $23,500. Three full tu- founded in 2007, offers degrees in poetry sional workshops, and an annual publish- ition waivers, six half-tuition waivers, and and fiction, and accepts 17 new students ing conference and book festival. Other 15 quarter-tuition waivers are available each year. The core faculty includes po- features include the student-run literary each year. All students receive a scholar- ets Rigoberto González, Rachel Hadas, journal Rathalla Review, and concentra- ship award worth $2,000 to $15,000. A. Van Jordan, and Brenda Shaughnessy; tions in dramatic writing, writing, Ten fellowships are available each year: fiction writers Alice Elliott Dark, Tayari and writing for young adults. Annual Teaching fellowships are worth $10,000 Jones, John Keene, Jayne Anne Phillips, tuition is $11,430. Up to 15 gradu- each, writing center fellowships are and Akhil Sharma; and nonfiction writer worth $13,000 over two years, and the ate assistantships and occasionally two James Goodman. The program hosts managing editor position of Mary: A teaching assistantships, which include a visiting writers series, the Writers at Journal of New Writing is worth $5,000. a tuition waiver for one course and five Newark Reading Series, and the Men- All second-year students receive $2,000 Director’s Merit Awards, which include a tors Program. Other features include in funding for professional development 20 percent tuition discount, are available concentrations in cultural, political, and in teaching, publishing, or commu- each year. Submit application materials ethnic studies, literature and book arts, nity engagement. Submit application with a $50 application fee (there is no fee and performance and media studies. materials with a $50 application fee by for online applications); admissions are Annual in-state tuition is $12,204; out- made on a rolling basis. Call, e-mail, or of-state tuition is $20,736. All students January 31, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit visit the website for complete application receive full funding either through a full the website for complete requirements requirements and guidelines. tuition waiver and Chancellor’s Sti- and guidelines. Rosemont College, Creative Writing pend of $15,000 each year; the Truman Saint Mary’s College of California, MFA Program, 1400 Montgomery Avenue, Capote Trust Fellowship, which includes Program in Creative Writing, P.O. Box Rosemont, PA 19010. (610) 527-0200. a full tuition waiver and a $5,000 annual 4686, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road, Moraga, Carla Spataro, Director. stipend; a teaching assistantship, which CA 94575. (925) 631-8556. Sara Mumolo, [email protected] includes a full tuition waiver and an Program Manager. www.rosemont.edu/gp/creative-writing-poetry-or annual salary of $25,969; or an MFA [email protected] -fiction/index.aspx Mentorship, which involves working stmarys-ca.edu/mfawrite Rutgers University in Camden, in Newark high schools and includes a San Diego State University in New Jersey full tuition waiver. Up to four additional California part-time lectureships each worth $4,320 This three-year program, founded This two- to three-year program, per semester are available each year. in 1989, offers degrees in poetry and founded in 2008, offers degrees in Submit application materials, including poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, fiction, and accepts 20 new students GRE scores to be eligible for funding, each year. The core faculty includes and accepts 20 new students each year. with a $65 application fee by January 5, poets Sandra Alcosser, Sherwin Bitsui, The core faculty includes poets J. T. 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for and Ilya Kaminsky; and fiction writers Barbarese and Patrick Rosal; fiction and complete requirements and guidelines. nonfiction writers Lauren Grodstein, Katie Farris, Harold Jaffe, Stephen-Paul Paul Lisicky, and Lisa Zeidner; and critic Rutgers University, 43 Bleeker Street, Martin, and David Matlin. The program Tyler Hoffman. The program hosts a Newark, NJ 07102. (973) 353-1107. hosts the Living Writers Series. Other reading series and an intensive summer Melissa Hartland, Program Coordinator. features include the literary journals Fic- writers’ conference. Other features in- [email protected] tion International, Poetry International, and clude the student-run literary magazine www.ncas.rutgers.edu/mfa pacificREVIEW. Annual in-state tuition StoryQuarterly. Annual in-state tuition is Saint Mary’s College of is $6,828; out-of-state tuition is $13,524. $16,272; out-of-state tuition is $26,808. California in Moraga Tutoring positions, teaching associate Up to seven teaching assistantships, This two- to three-year program, found- positions, Poetry International and Fiction which include a full tuition waiver, health ed in 1995, offers degrees in poetry, fic- International internships, and scholarships benefits, and a stipend of approximately tion, creative nonfiction, and dual-genre, are available each year. Submit applica- $26,000 each; and up to eight Dean’s and accepts 22 new students each year. tion materials, including GRE scores if fellowships, worth up to $5,000 each, are The core faculty includes poets Brenda undergraduate GPA is below a 3.0, with a available each year. Submit application Hillman and Matthew Zapruder; fiction $55 application fee by February 1, 2016.

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Call, e-mail, or visit the website for com- plete requirements and guidelines. San Diego State University, English and Location Comparative Literature Department, Do you want to live in the city or in the country? Full-Residency 5500 Campanile Drive, Mail Code MC Consider the cost of living in the area where the 6020, Arts & Letters 226, San Diego, program is located (see page 34). Two or three years CA 92182. (619) 594-5443. Mary Garcia, is a long time to live anywhere—place matters. Admissions Coordinator. [email protected] mfa.sdsu.edu/contact.htm San Francisco State University San José State University in writers Carolyn Ferrell, Kathleen Hill, in California California David Hollander, Mary LaChapelle, Mary Morris, Brian Morton, Victoria This three-year program, founded in This three-year program, founded in 2001, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Redel, Nelly Reifler, David Ryan, Joan 1992, offers degrees in poetry, fic- and creative nonfiction, as well as script- Silber, Martha Southgate, and Kate tion, and creative nonfiction, as well as writing, and accepts 15 new students Zambreno; and nonfiction writers playwriting, and accepts 45 new students each year. The core faculty includes po- Jo Ann Beard, , each year. The core faculty includes ets Persis Karim, Samuel Maio, and Alan Stephen O’Connor, Jacob Slichter, Vijay poets Paul Hoover and Daniel Langton; Soldofsky; fiction writers John Engell Seshadri, and Dan Zevin. The program fiction writers Nona Caspers, Peter and Nick Taylor; and nonfiction writer features biweekly one-on-one confer- Orner, and ZZ Packer; poetry and fiction Cathleen Miller. The program hosts ences with instructors; the student-run writers Maxine Chernoff, Robert Gluck, readings, conversations, and the Lurie literary magazine Lumina; guest writer and Andrew Joron; fiction and nonfiction Author-in-Residence Program. The residencies; and regular student-faculty readings. Other features include the writer Chanan Tigay; and poet and 2015 Author-in-Residence is nonfiction writer Andrew Lam; the 2016 Author- student-run Sarah Lawrence Poetry Fes- nonfiction writer Toni Mirosevich. The in-Residence is fiction writer Cristina tival, the Summer Writing Seminars, and program hosts a reading series and the García. Other features include the opportunities to teach in local schools, student-run reading series VelRo. Other literary journal Reed Magazine and master community organizations, colleges, features include the Poetry Center and classes in collaboration with the Center and correctional facilities through the American Poetry Archives, the literary for Literary Arts. The program requires Community Writers Program. Annual journal New American Writing, and the students to study in two genres. Annual tuition is $25,740. Seventy-five percent student-run journals Transfer Magazine in-state tuition is $6,738; out-of-state tu- of students receive an annual scholar- and Fourteen Hills: San Francisco State ition is $13,434. Two to six teaching as- ship or fellowship of up to $12,000. Review. Annual in-state tuition is $7,352; sociate positions, which include a partial The Michele Tolela Myers Fellowship, worth $11,250; the Thomas Lux teach- out-of-state tuition is $10,700. Up to tuition and fee waiver worth $2,906 and an additional $3,204, are available each ing scholarship, worth $6,000; the Joan two creative writing assistantships worth year. Additional scholarships and awards T. Baldwin Scholarship, worth $5,000; $5,830 each; up to three creative writing of up to $2,000 each are sometimes up to 15 graduate assistantships worth assistantships worth $2,915 each; up available. Submit application materials $3,000 to $6,000 each; and the Palm to five William Dickey Poetry Fellow- with a $55 application fee by March 1, Beach Festival Grant, worth $2,500, are ships worth $5,000 each; up to three Joe 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for available each year. Submit application Brainard Creative Writing Fellowships complete requirements and guidelines. materials with a $60 application fee by worth $5,000 each; one Miriam Ylvisa- San José State University, English December 15. Call, e-mail, or visit the ker Fellowship worth $1,000 to $2,000; Department, 1 Washington Square, San website for complete requirements and one James Milton Highsmith Award José, CA 95192. (408) 924-4432. Alan guidelines. worth $2,000; and two James Milton Soldofsky, Director. , MFA in Writing, Highsmith Awards worth $200 each are [email protected] 1 Mead Way, Bronxville, NY 10708. (914) available each year. Submit application www.sjsu.edu/english/graduate/mfa 395-2371. Amparo Rios, Coordinator of materials with a $55 application fee by Sarah Lawrence College in Graduate Writing. [email protected] January 15, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit Bronxville, New York www.slc.edu/writing-mfa the website for complete requirements This two-year program, founded in and guidelines. 1969, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Southern Illinois University in and creative nonfiction, and accepts ap- Carbondale San Francisco State University, Creative proximately 50 new students each year. This three-year program, founded in Writing Department, 1600 Holloway The core faculty includes poets Rachel 1996, offers degrees in poetry and fic- Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132. (415) Eliza Griffiths, Matthea Harvey, James tion, and accepts 13 new students each 338-1891. Nona Caspers, Graduate Coor- Hoch, Cathy Park Hong, Marie Howe, year. The core faculty includes poets dinator. [email protected] Jeffrey McDaniel, Dennis Nurske, Kate Judy Jordan, Allison Joseph, and Jon c r e a t i v e w r i t i n g . s f s u . e d u Phillips, and Martha Rhodes; fiction Tribble; and fiction writers Pinckney

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Benedict, Scott Blackwood, and Beth and Writers Project. For first-year stu- Temple University in Lordan. The program hosts the student- dents, annual in-state tuition is $10,870; , Pennsylvania run Little Grassy Literary Festival, a vis- out-of-state tuition is $22,210. For This two-year program, founded in iting writers series, and the student- and second- and third-year students, annual 2010, offers degrees in poetry and fic- faculty-run Young Writers Workshop. in-state tuition is $8,154; out-of-state tion, and accepts 10 new students each Other features include internships and tuition is $16,650. Two full graduate as- year. The core faculty includes poets assistantships with Crab Orchard Review, sistantships, which include a full tuition Jena Osman and Brian Teare, and fiction the Devil’s Kitchen Literary Festival, waiver and a $17,502 stipend each; and writers Don Lee, Joan Mellen, and Alan and the Saluki Writers Project. Annual six to seven half graduate assistantships, Singer. The program hosts a reading in-state tuition is $6,682; out-of-state which include a half-tuition waiver and a series, a visiting writers series, and the

Full-Residency tuition is $15,704. All students receive stipend of $8,751 each, are available each Rachel Blau DuPlessis Lecture in Poetry a teaching assistantship, which includes year. To be eligible for funding, submit and Poetics series. Other features include a full tuition waiver and a stipend of application materials with a $100 ap- the online literary journal Tinge. Annual approximately $13,000. Up to three plication fee by January 1, 2016; regular in-state tuition is $15,354; out-of-state assistantships to work with Crab Orchard admissions are made on a rolling basis tuition is $21,042. Fellowships, which Review, which include a full tuition until May 1, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit include a full tuition waiver, health waiver and a stipend of approximately the website for complete requirements benefits, and a $21,000 stipend; and $13,000 each, are available each year. and guidelines. teaching assistantships, which include a Submit application materials, including full tuition waiver, health benefits, and a GRE scores, with a $50 application fee by Stony Brook University, MFA in Cre- $16,555 stipend, are available each year; February 15, 2016; apply by February 1 ative Writing & Literature, 239 Montauk in 2014–2015, two fellowships and four to be eligible for funding. Call, e-mail, or Highway, Southampton, NY 11968. (631) assistantships were given to first-year visit the website for complete require- 632-5030. Adrienne Unger, Administra- students. Submit application materials, ments and guidelines. tive Coordinator. including GRE scores, with a $75 appli- Southern Illinois University Carbon- [email protected] cation fee ($60 for online applicants) by dale, English Department, 1000 Faner www.stonybrook.edu/mfa December 15. Call, e-mail, or visit the Drive, Mail Code 4503, Carbondale, IL Syracuse University in New website for complete requirements and 62901. (618) 453-5321. Allison Joseph, York guidelines. Codirector. [email protected] This three-year program, founded in Temple University, Creative Writing cola.siu.edu/english/graduate/master-of-fine-arts 1992, offers degrees in poetry and fic- Program, English Department (022-29), Stony Brook University in tion, and accepts 12 new students each Anderson Hall, Room 1020, 1114 Polett Southampton, New York year. The core faculty includes poets Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19122. (215) 204- 1796. Sharon Logan, Program Coordina- This two- to three-year program, Michael Burkard, Brooks Haxton, Mary tor. [email protected] founded in 2007, offers an open-genre Karr, Christopher Kennedy, and Bruce degree, and accepts 20 to 25 new stu- Smith; and fiction writers Jonathan www.temple.edu/creativewriting dents each year. Coursework is available Dee, Arthur Flowers, George Saunders, Texas State University in San in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, and Dana Spiotta. The program hosts Marcos as well as children’s literature and script- the Raymond Carver Reading Series, This three-year program, founded in writing. Students can take courses on which brings in 12 writers each year. 1991, offers degrees in poetry and fic- both the and Southampton Other features include the student-run tion, as well as courses in nonfiction, and Stony Brook University campuses. The literary journal Salt Hill. Annual tuition accepts 20 to 24 new students each year. core faculty includes poets Star Black, is $33,312. All students receive a full The core faculty includes poets Cyrus Billy Collins, and Julie Sheehan; fiction tuition waiver. Six University Fellow- Cassells, Roger Jones, Cecily Parks, writers Melissa Bank, Ursula Hegi, ships worth $19,000 each; two Mead Kathleen Peirce, and Steve Wilson; and Kaylie Jones, Matthew Klam, Patricia Fellowships and two Carhart Fellowships fiction writers Doug Dorst, Jennifer McCormick, Daniel Menaker, Susan worth $18,000 each; five creative writing duBois, Tom Grimes, Debra Monroe, Scarf Merrell, Robert Reeves, Frederic scholarships worth $14,500 each; and 20 and Tim O’Brien. The 2014–2016 visit- Tuten, Emma Walton Hamilton, and teaching assistantships worth $14,000 ing faculty is fiction writer Ben Fountain; Meg Wolitzer; and nonfiction writ- each are available each year. Submit ap- the 2016–2018 visiting faculty is fiction ers Neal Gabler, Patricia Marx, Roger writer Karen Russell. The program plication materials with a $75 application Rosenblatt, and Lou Ann Walker. The hosts a visiting writers series, which fee by December 15. Call, e-mail, or visit program hosts the annual Southampton includes readings and master classes the website for complete requirements Writers Conference, and the reading with eight writers each year, and features and guidelines. series Writers Speak. Other features the student-run online journal Front include the literary journal TSR: The Syracuse University, English Graduate Porch. Annual in-state tuition is $5,422; Southampton Review, and opportunities Office, 401 Hall of Languages, Syracuse, out-of-state tuition is $12,442. The Rose to meet individually with agents, take NY 13244. (315) 443-9480. Sarah Har- Scholarship, which includes a teaching workshops abroad during the winter, and well, Associate Director. assistantship and an additional $30,000 teach at Stony Brook University or in [email protected] stipend (which is used to cover tuition); area schools through the Young Artists english.syr.edu/creative_writing 12 to 20 teaching assistantships, which

POETS & WRITERS 18 MFA PROGRAMS include an in-state tuition waiver and a (205) 348-5065. Robin Behn, Faculty 99775. (907) 474-7193. Daryl Farmer, stipend of $12,770 to $14,914 each; up Director. [email protected] Assistant Professor. to 20 summer teaching positions worth english.ua.edu/grad/cw [email protected] www.uaf.edu/english/graduate-programs/mfa $3,500 to $4,000 each; and up to five University of in Full-Residency scholarships worth $1,500 to $5,000 each Fairbanks University of Arizona in Tucson are available each year. Submit applica- This three-year program, founded in the This two-year program, founded in tion materials with a $40 application fee 1960s, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, by January 15, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit 1972, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as writing the website for complete requirements and creative nonfiction, and accepts for film and television, and accepts 10 and guidelines. 12 new students each year. The core new students each year. The core faculty faculty includes poets Susan Briante, Texas State University, English Depart- includes poet Derick Burleson and Sean Farid Matuk, and Joshua Marie Wilkin- ment, 601 University Drive, San Marcos, Hill, fiction writers Gerri Brightwell and son; fiction writers Kate Bernheimer, TX 78666. (512) 245-7681. Kyle Mellen, and nonfiction writer Daryl Julie Iromuanya, Manuel Muñoz, and [email protected] Farmer. The program hosts a visiting Aurelie Sheehan; and nonfiction writers www.english.txstate.edu/mfa writers series and the English Gradu- Christopher Cokinos, Alison Haw- University of Alabama in ate Organization Reading Series. Other thorne Deming, Fenton Johnson, and Tuscaloosa features include the literary journal Per- Ander Monson. The program hosts the This three- to four-year program, found- mafrost. Annual in-state tuition is $7,614; Poetry Center, three reading series, and ed in 1973, offers degrees in poetry, fic- out-of-state tuition is $15,552. Up to 10 the literary journals Sonora Review and tion, and creative nonfiction, and accepts teaching assistantships, which include a Fairy Tale Review. Other features include approximately 18 new students each year. full tuition waiver and a stipend of ap- Writer as Citizen internships, opportuni- The core faculty includes poets Robin proximately $12,000 each, are available ties for a fifth semester, and travel grants. Behn, Joel Brouwer, and Heidi Lynn Sta- each year. Submit application materials, Annual in-state tuition is $11,040; out- ples; fiction writer Kellie Wells; fiction including GRE scores, with a $60 ap- of-state tuition is $29,362. All students and nonfiction writers Michael Martone plication fee by January 15, 2016. Call, receive a teaching assistantship, a Writer and Wendy Rawlings; and nonfiction e-mail, or visit the website for complete as Citizen position, or a Poetry Center writer Hali Felt. The program hosts the requirements and guidelines. assistantship, which include a full tuition MFA Reading Series, the Bankhead Visit- University of Alaska, English Depart- waiver, health benefits, and a $14,210 ing Writers Series, and the Coal Royalty ment, P.O. Box 755720, Fairbanks, AK stipend. Submit application materials Chairholders teaching residencies. Other features include cross-genre courses; the student-run literary magazine Black War- rior Review; and opportunities to teach in correctional facilities through the Ala- Notes bama Prison Arts & Education Program, and in secondary schools through the Writers in the Schools Program and the Creative Writing Club. Annual in-state tuition is $10,170; out-of-state tuition is $25,950. All students receive a research or teaching assistantship, which includes a full tuition waiver, health benefits, and a $13,500 stipend each year. All first-year students receive an additional incoming scholarship of approximately $600. Up to four Graduate Council Fellowships and McNair Fellowships, which include a full tuition waiver, a $15,000 stipend, and a reduced teaching courseload each, are available each year; the McNair Fellowships are given to first-generation students or students from an underrepre- sented minority group. Travel grants for research and conferences are also avail- able. Submit application materials with a $50 application fee by December 31. Visit the website for complete require- ments and guidelines. University of Alabama, English Depart- ment, Box 870244, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487.

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with a $75 application fee by January 1, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for complete requirements and guidelines. Accessibility University of Arizona, MFA Program, How approachable are those famous faculty English Department, P.O. Box 210067, Tucson, AZ 85721. (520) 621-7216. members? How easily are you able to find out Sharonne Meyerson, Administrative As- important information about a program (i.e., funding)? sistant. [email protected] If you call or e-mail a program with a question, do you english.arizona.edu/lp/creative-writing get a timely response? Prospective students shouldn’t University of Arkansas in Full-Residency Fayetteville get the cold shoulder or be left guessing. This four-year program, founded in 1966, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, and translation, and accepts 13 new Steve Matanle, fiction writers Betsy Boyd Maillard; and fiction and nonfiction students each year. The core faculty and Jane Delury, and creative nonfic- writer Timothy Taylor. Students are includes poets Geoffrey Brock, Gef- tion writer Marion Winik. The program required to take coursework in three frey Davis, Michael Heffernan, and hosts a reading series of writers and genres. The program hosts the Locution Davis McCombs; fiction writers Ellen publishing professionals. Other features Reading Series. Other features include Gilchrist, Toni Jensen, and Padma include courses on publishing, creativ- the student-edited journal PRISM and Viswanathan; and translator John DuVal. ity, and teaching writing; a student-run opportunities to teach creative writing The program hosts the Distinguished in local secondary schools through the Reader Series and a visiting writers reading series; the literary journal Welter; New Shoots Program. Annual tuition is series, through which students have the internships at Baltimore arts organiza- opportunity to work with guest writers tions and University of Baltimore presses $4,615 Canadian; international tuition is each semester. Other features include Plork Press and Passager Books; and the $8,108 Canadian (approximately $6,162). opportunities to teach in the commu- requirement for each student to write, All international students receive an In- nity through the Writers in the Schools design, and produce a book. Annual ternational Tuition Award worth $3,200 program, and to read at local events in-state tuition is $12,762; out-of-state Canadian. Up to three editorial positions and festivals. Annual in-state tuition is tuition is $18,504. Up to four teach- with PRISM International Magazine $5,999; out-of-state tuition is $14,813. ing assistantships, which include a full worth $5,000 each; up to 50 teaching as- Up to 40 teaching assistantships, which tuition waiver and a stipend of $1,750 to sistantships worth $2,700 each, available include a full tuition waiver and a stipend $3,500 each, are available each year to to students who can work on-campus in of $11,000 to $11,500 each; up to 20 second-year students. Submit application ; up to 25 Graduate Support- Distinguished MFA Fellowships worth materials with a $35 application fee by ive Initiative scholarships worth $2,000 $3,000 each; four to five Walton Fellow- February 15, 2016; admissions are made to $3,000 each; up to 22 Endowed Schol- ships, which include a $11,000 stipend thereafter on a rolling basis. E-mail or arships worth $100 to $2,150 each; up to and a release from teaching for one year; visit the website for complete require- three Booming Ground writing mentor- four to five Lily Peter Fellowships worth ments and guidelines. ship positions worth $23 per hour; and $1,000 to $1,500 each; and Writers in University of Baltimore, MFA in Creative up to nine work/learn positions worth the Schools stipends worth $300 to $500 Writing and Publishing Arts, 1420 North $14 to $23 per hour are available each per visit to Arkansas public schools are Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. year. Students can also apply for the available each year. Submit application Kendra Kopelke, Program Director. university-wide Aboriginal Graduate materials, including GRE scores, by [email protected] Fellowships, which include a full tuition January 8, 2016. There is no application www.ubalt.edu/creativewriting waiver and a $16,000 stipend; Joseph- fee. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for University of Armand Bombardier Canada Gradu- complete requirements and guidelines. in Vancouver, Canada ate Scholarships for Canadians worth University of Arkansas, Arkansas Pro- This two-year program, founded in $17,500 each; and Affiliated Awards gram in Creative Writing and Transla- 1965, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, worth $16,000 each. Submit applica- tion, 333 Kimpel Hall, Fayetteville, AR creative nonfiction, and translation, as tion materials with an application fee of 72701. (479) 575-4301. Davis McCombs, well as writing, lyric and $98.25 Canadian or $159 Canadian for Director. [email protected] libretto, new media writing, playwriting, international applicants (approximately mfa.uark.edu radio drama, screenwriting, and writing $121) by January 4, 2016. Call, e-mail, or University of Baltimore in for children, and accepts 24 new students visit the website for complete require- Maryland each year. The core faculty includes poet ments and guidelines. This three-year program in creative Rhea Tregebov; fiction writers Steven University of British Columbia, Creative writing and publishing arts, founded in Galloway, Nancy Lee, Annabel Lyon, Writing, Buchanan E-462, 1866 Main 2004, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Maureen Medved, Linda Svendsen, and Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada. and creative nonfiction, and accepts 20 John Vigna; nonfiction writers Deborah (604) 822-3058. Linda Svendsen, Gradu- new students each year. The core faculty Campbell, Kevin Chong, and Andreas ate Advisor. [email protected] includes poets Kendra Kopelke and Schroeder; poet and fiction writer Keith www.creativewriting.ubc.ca

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University of California in complete requirements and guidelines. Sun; a student reading series, Parcels; Riverside University of California in San Diego, community outreach projects; and the This two-year program, founded in 2002, 9500 Gilman Drive, Literature Building, student-run Graduate Writers Associa- offers degrees in poetry, fiction, and Room 139, La Jolla, CA 92093. (858) 534- tion. Other features include internships Full-Residency creative nonfiction, as well as playwriting 8849. Tania Mayer, Graduate Coordina- at the international literary journal and screenwriting, and accepts 18 new tor. [email protected] Florida Review and the student-run jour- students each year. The core faculty in- literature.ucsd.edu/grad/mfa nal Cypress Dome. Annual in-state tuition and fees is $6,654; out-of-state tuition cludes poets Katie Ford and Allison Benis University of Central Arkansas and fees is $21,493. Up to five teaching White; fiction writers Charmaine Craig, in Conway Josh Emmons, Stephen Erickson, Nalo assistantships, which include a full tuition This three-year program, founded in Hopkinson, Michael Jayme, Laila Lalami, waiver, health benefits, and an $8,000 2012, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Goldberry Long, Jane Smiley, Susan stipend; and up to two Provost Fellow- and creative nonfiction, as well as drama, Straight, and Andrew Winer; and nonfic- ships, which include a full tuition waiver, and accepts eight new students each year. tion writers Reza Aslan and Tom Lutz. health benefits, and a $10,000 stipend, The core faculty includes poet Sandy The program hosts the annual Writer’s are available each year. Submit applica- Longhorn; fiction writer John Vander- Week. Other features include the student- tion materials, including GRE scores, slice; nonfiction writers Jennifer Case run literary magazine CRATE. Annual with a $31 application fee by January 5, and Stephanie Vanderslice; poet, fiction in-state tuition is $11,220; out-of-state 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for writer, and nonfiction writer Mark tuition is $26,322. Up to 18 fellowships, complete requirements and guidelines. Spitzer; and fiction and nonfiction writer which include a full tuition and fee waiver Garry Craig Powell. The program hosts University of Central Florida, English and a stipend of at least $6,200 each, an artist-in-residence series. Other fea- Department, P.O. Box 161346, Orlando, are available to first-year students each tures include the literary magazines Ox- FL 32816. (407) 823-2112. Terry Ann year. Up to 18 teaching assistantships, ford American and Toad Suck Review, and Thaxton, Program Director. which include a full tuition waiver and coursework in publishing and creative [email protected] an $18,450 stipend each, are available to writing pedagogy. Annual in-state tuition english.cah.ucf.edu/graduate/creative.php second-year students each year. Up to five is $4,861; out-of-state tuition is $9,722. University of Colorado in Gluck Fellowships worth up to $5,000 Up to five assistantships are available to Boulder each are available each year. To be eligible first-year students: the Writing Center for funding, submit application materials This three-year program, founded in Assistantships, worth $9,000 each; the 2006, offers degrees in poetry and fic- with an $80 application fee by January Toad Suck Review Graduate Assistant- 5, 2016; general admissions are made on tion, and accepts nine new students each ships, worth $9,000 each; and the Oxford year. The core faculty includes poets a rolling basis. Call, e-mail, or visit the American Graduate Assistantships, worth website for complete requirements and Julie Carr, Noah Eli Gordon, and Ruth $11,000 each. Teaching and Writing Ellen Kocher; and fiction writers Jef- guidelines. Center Assistantships, which include a frey DeShell, Marcia Douglas, Stephen University of California in Riverside, MFA $9,500 stipend, are available to second- Graham Jones, and Elisabeth Sheffield. in Creative Writing Program, 900 Uni- and third-year students. Submit applica- The program hosts a reading series and versity Avenue, ARTS 124, Riverside, CA tion materials, including GRE scores, Subito Press, which sponsors the annual 92521. (951) 827-5568. Bryan Bradford, with a $25 application fee by February 1, Graduate Publishing Workshop. Other MFA Coordinator. [email protected] 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for features include the student-run literary writingmfa.ucr.edu complete requirements and guidelines. journal Timber. Annual in-state tuition is University of California in San University of Central Arkansas, Arkansas $10,530; out-of-state tuition is $27,828. Diego Writers MFA Workshop, Writing Depart- Up to eight teaching assistantships, This two- to three-year program, ment, 201 Donaghey Avenue, Thompson which include a partial tuition waiver, founded in 2009, offers a cross-genre de- 303, Conway, AR 72035. (501) 450- partial health benefits, and a stipend of gree in poetry and fiction, and accepts six 3340. Stephanie Vanderslice, Director. $4,477 to $8,955 per semester; and up to new students each year. The core faculty [email protected] six Creative Writing Fellowships worth includes cross-genre writers Ben Doller, uca.edu/writing/mfa $1,000 to $5,000 each are available Camille Forbes, Cristina Rivera-Garza, University of Central Florida in each year. Submit application materi- and Anna Joy Springer. The program Orlando als, including GRE scores, with a $50 hosts a reading series. Annual in-state This two- to three-year program, found- application fee by December 31. Call, tuition with fees is $16,435; out-of-state ed in 2006, offers degrees in poetry, fic- e-mail, or visit the website for complete tuition with fees is $31,537. All students tion, and creative nonfiction, and accepts requirements and guidelines. receive either a teaching assistantship, up to 18 new students each year. The University of Colorado, English Depart- which includes a full tuition waiver, core faculty includes poets Don Stap ment, 226 UCB, Hellems 101, 1550 Cen- health benefits, and approximately and Terry Ann Thaxton; fiction writers tral Campus Mall, Boulder, CO 80309. $18,500; or a readership, which includes Susan Hubbard, David James Poissant, (303) 492-6594. Elisabeth Sheffield, a full tuition waiver, health benefits, and Darlin’ Neal, and Cecilia Milanés; and Director. elisabeth. a stipend. Submit application materials nonfiction writers Jocelyn Bartkevicius [email protected] with a $90 application fee by December and Lisa Roney. The program hosts a english.colorado.edu/graduates/mfa-creative 1. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for visiting writers series, Writers in the -writing

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University of Florida in University of Guelph-Humber in Canadian (approximately $84) applica- Gainesville , Canada tion fee by December 1. Call, e-mail, or This three-year program, founded in This two-year program, founded in visit the website for complete require- 1949, offers degrees in poetry and fiction 2006, offers a degree in creative writing, ments and guidelines. and accepts 12 new students each year. and accepts 12 to 14 new students each University of Guelph-Humber, Creative The core faculty includes poets Michael year. Coursework is offered in poetry, Writing MFA, P.O. Box 187, Station E, Hofmann, William Logan, Ange Mlinko, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as Toronto, ON M6H 4E2, Canada. (647) and Sidney Wade; and fiction writers Jill drama. The core faculty includes writers 459-1331. Hillary Rexe, Program Adminis- Clement, Amy Hempel, David Leavitt, Dionne Brand, Catherine Bush, and trator. [email protected] and Padgett Powell. The program hosts Judith Thompson. The program hosts www.guelphcreativewritingmfa.com

Full-Residency the annual Writer’s Festival and the liter- a reading series, professional panels, University of Houston in Texas ary magazine Subtropics. Other features semester-long mentorships, and master include opportunities to meet with edi- classes at the International Festival of This three-year program, founded in tors and agents. Annual in-state tuition Authors. Other features include a teach- 1979, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, and accepts is $9,516; out-of-state tuition is $22,561. ing practicum in downtown Toronto 12 to 15 new students each year. The All students receive either a fellowship schools through the Parkdale Project. core faculty includes poets Nick Flynn, or teaching assistantship, which confers Annual domestic tuition is approximately Tony Hoagland, Kevin Prufer, Martha in-state tuition status and includes a full $5,029 Canadian; international tuition Serpas, and Roberto Tejada; fiction writ- tuition waiver and an annual stipend of is $12,346 Canadian (approximately ers Robert Boswell, Chitra Divakaruni, $13,765. Submit application materials, $9,383). All students receive a Constance Matthew Johnson, Antonya Nelson, and including GRE scores, with a $30 ap- Rooke Scholarship worth $11,500 Cana- Alexander Parsons; nonfiction writer plication fee by January 15, 2016. Call, dian, given over the course of two years. Peter Turchi; and fiction and nonfiction e-mail, or visit the website for complete The Edward Y. Morwick scholarship, writer Audrey Colombe. The program requirements and guidelines. worth $7,000; the HarperCollins/Con- hosts the Inprint Margarett Root Brown University of Florida, English Depart- stance Rooke Scholarship, worth $5,000; Reading Series and the Rice University/ ment, 4008 Turlington Hall, P.O. Box and the M&S Scholarship, worth $2,500, University of Houston Reading Series. 117310, Gainesville, FL 32611. (352) 294- are also available each year. Additional Other features include the student-run 2872. Carla Blount, Contact. writing tutor positions and travel and literary magazine Gulf Coast and op- [email protected] research grants are occasionally available. portunities to participate in the Writers www.english.ufl.edu/crw Submit application materials with a $110 in the Schools program. Annual in-state tuition is $5,760; out-of-state tuition is $14,580. Almost all students receive a teaching assistantship, which includes a Notes full tuition waiver, health benefits, and a $15,000 stipend. Up to 15 Inprint Fellowships worth $10,000 each, and up to three Provost Fellowships worth $4,000 each are also available each year. Submit application materials, including GRE scores, with a $75 application fee by December 31. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for complete requirements and guidelines. University of Houston, Creative Writ- ing Program, 229 Roy Cullen Building, Houston, TX 77204. (713) 743-3015. James Kastely, Director. [email protected] www.uh.edu/cwp University of Idaho in Moscow This three-year program, founded in 1996, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, and accepts 10 to 12 new students each year. The core faculty includes poets Ron McFarland, Alexandra Teague, and Robert Wrig- ley; fiction writer Daniel Orozco; and nonfiction writers Kim Barnes, Brandon Schrand, and Scott Slovic. The program hosts a Distinguished Visiting Writers program, several Writing-in-the-Wild

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Fellowships, the Hemingway Fellowship in fiction, and the annual Hemingway Festival. Other features include the liter- Teaching ary journal Fugue and an internship with Is the opportunity to teach undergraduate classes Full-Residency the Port Townsend Writers’ Confer- ence. Annual in-state tuition is $8,222; important to you? If so, what course load would out-of-state tuition is $22,226. Nine be required of you? Will you have enough time teaching assistantships, which include to write? Are there opportunities to work in the a full out-of-state tuition waiver and an annual $13,500 stipend each, are avail- community, such as teaching in high schools, able each year. Eight full in-state tuition senior centers, or prisons? waivers; 36 to 40 Grace Nixon Scholar- ships worth approximately $1,500 each (all teaching assistants receive Nixon Scholarships in addition to the assistant- complete requirements and guidelines. Nonfiction ship stipend); and three Hogue Family University of Illinois, Creative Writing Writing Program in Iowa City Scholarships worth $3,000 to $4,500 Program, 608 South Wright Street, This three-year program, founded in each are also available each year. Submit Urbana, IL 61801. (217) 333-3979. Steve 1976, offers degrees in creative nonfic- application materials with an $85 ap- Davenport, Associate Director. tion, and accepts 10 new students each plication fee ($60 for online applications) [email protected] year. The core faculty includes nonfic- by January 15, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit tion writers John D’Agata, Patricia Fos- creativewriting.english.illinois.edu the website for complete requirements ter, Kerry Howley, Jeff Porter, Bonnie and guidelines. University of Iowa in Iowa City Sunstein, and Inara Verzemnieks. The University of Idaho, English Department, This two-year program, founded in program hosts a visiting writers series; 875 Perimeter Drive MS 1102, Moscow, 1936, offers degrees in poetry and Anthology and Speakeasy, the program’s ID 83844. (208) 885-6156. Bret Shepard, fiction, and accepts 50 new students graduate-student reading series; the Director. [email protected] each year. The core faculty includes annual Essay Prize; and The Lit Show, a www.uidaho.edu/class/english/graduate poets James Galvin, Mark Levine, and radio program and podcast that features /mfaincreativewriting Elizabeth Willis; and fiction writers interviews with visiting writers. Other features include the literary journals De- University of Illinois in Urbana- Ethan Canin, Lan Samantha Chang, funct, Essay Review, and Iowa Review; and Champaign Charles D’Ambrosio, Margot Livesey, grants such as the Herodotus Awards, This three-year program, founded in Ayana Mathis, and Marilynne Robinson. The 2015–2016 visiting faculty includes the Stanley Fellowships, and the Rox- 2002, offers degrees in poetry and fic- anne Mueller Award, given annually for tion, and accepts six new students each poet Emily Wilson, and fiction writers Paul Harding, Adam Levin, and Rebecca research projects. Annual in-state tuition year. The core faculty includes poets Jan- is $8,396; out-of-state tuition is $25,574. Makkai. The program hosts readings, ice N. Harrington, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, All students receive a fellowship or a master classes, lectures, question and and Michael Madonick; and fiction writ- teaching assistantship, which includes a answer sessions, and short courses with ers Philip Graham and Alex Shakar. The full tuition waiver, health benefits, and a visiting faculty member for 2015–2016 visiting writers, agents, and editors. stipend of up to $18,261. Submit applica- is fiction writer Christine Sneed. The Other features include a community tion materials with a $60 application fee program hosts the Carr Visiting Authors outreach program, University of Iowa by January 1, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit Reading Series and cosponsors the Press, Iowa Review, the University of the website for complete requirements annual Pygmalion Literary and Music Iowa Center for the Book, and the and guidelines. Festival. Other features include the Translation Workshop. Annual in-state University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing literary arts journal Ninth Letter. Annual tuition is $8,396; out-of-state tuition is Program, English Department, 308 Eng- in-state tuition is $12,060; out-of-state $25,574. All students receive a fellowship lish Philosophy Building, Iowa City, Iowa tuition is $26,058. All students receive or a research or teaching assistantship, 52242. (319) 335-0440. Cherie Hansen- a teaching assistantship, which includes which includes a full tuition waiver and Rieskamp, Graduate Program Academic a full tuition waiver and a stipend. The a stipend of $12,000 to $18,500. Submit Coordinator. stipend for first-year teaching assistant- application materials with a $60 applica- [email protected] ships, which include teaching one course tion fee by January 3, 2016. Call, e-mail, english.uiowa.edu/graduate-program/mfa per semester, is $10,586; the stipend or visit the website for complete require- -nonfiction-writing for second- and third-year teaching ments and guidelines. assistantships, which include teaching University of Kansas in two courses per semester, is $21,493. All University of Iowa, Iowa Writers’ Lawrence first-year students receive an additional Workshop, 102 Dey House, 507 North This three-year program, founded in fellowship worth $2,500. Submit applica- Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA 52242. (319) 2005, offers degrees in poetry, fic- tion materials, including GRE scores, 335-0416. Deb West, Secretary. tion, and creative nonfiction, as well as with a $70 application fee by December [email protected] playwriting, and accepts up to six new 4. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for writersworkshop.uiowa.edu students each year. The core faculty in-

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cludes poets Joseph Harrington, Ken- University of Massachusetts in and University of Massachusetts Press. neth Irby, and Megan Kaminski; and Amherst Annual in-state tuition is $12,091; out- fiction writers Kij Johnson, Laura This three-year program, founded in of-state tuition is $23,337. All students Moriarty, and Tom Lorenz. The pro- 1964, offers degrees in poetry and fic- receive an assistantship, which includes a gram hosts a visiting writers series and a tion, and accepts 18 new students each full tuition waiver, a quarter-fee waiver, graduate-student reading series. Other year. The core faculty includes poets and an annual stipend of $4,220 to features include the student-run literary Peter Gizzi and Dara Wier; and fiction $9,154. One Distinguished MFA Fellow- journal Beecher’s. Annual in-state tuition writers Noy Holland, Edie Meidav, ship for Writing and Publishing, which is $4,514; out-of-state tuition is $10,560. Sabina Murray, and Jeff Parker. The includes full tuition and fee waivers, All students receive a teaching assistant- program hosts a visiting writers series, health benefits, and a $25,000 stipend, is

Full-Residency ship, a research position, or a fellowship, the annual Juniper Literary Festival, the available each year. Submit application which includes a full tuition waiver and a Juniper Summer Writing Institute, the materials with a $60 application fee by $14,000 stipend. Submit application ma- Writers Work career forum series, and January 15, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit terials, including GRE scores, with a $65 the jubilat/Jones Reading Series. Other the website for complete requirements application fee by December 31. Call, features include opportunities to par- and guidelines. e-mail, or visit the website for complete ticipate as faculty or staff of the Juniper University of Massachusetts in Boston, requirements and guidelines. Institute for Young Writers, work with Creative Writing MFA Program, 100 University of Kansas, English Depart- the poetry journal jubilat or the online Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125. ment, 1445 Jayhawk Boulevard, Room literary journal Route 9, and intern with (617) 287-6736. Renata Tutko, Program 3001, Lawrence, KS 66045. (785) 864- journals and presses such as Disquiet, Administrator. [email protected] 2518. Lydia Ash, Graduate Secretary. Massachusetts Review, and Slope. Annual www.umb.edu/academics/cla/english/grad/mfa [email protected] in-state tuition is $14,314; out-of-state University of Miami in Florida www2.ku.edu/~englishmfa tuition is $28,317. Up to four fellow- This two- to three-year program, found- University of Maryland in ships, which include a full tuition waiver ed in 1991, offers degrees in poetry and College Park and a $17,200 stipend, are available fiction, and accepts six new students each each year for first-year students. Ninety This two- to three-year program, year. The core faculty includes poets percent of students receive a teaching as- founded in 1990, offers degrees in poetry Jaswinder Bolina, Mia Leonin, and Mau- sociateship, which includes a full tuition and fiction, and accepts 20 new students reen Seaton; and fiction writers Chantel waiver, most fees, health benefits, and a each year. The core faculty includes Acevedo, A. Manette Ansay, M. Evelina stipend of $9,264 per semester. Submit poets Elizabeth Arnold, Michael Collier, Galang, and Amina Gautier. The visiting application materials with a $75 applica- Stanley Plumly, and Joshua Weiner; faculty for 2015–2016 is fiction writer tion fee by December 15. Call, e-mail, or and fiction writers Maud Casey, Emily Ana Menéndez. The program offers visit the website for complete require- Mitchell, and Howard Norman. The a multilingual focus and hosts the Ibis ments and guidelines. program hosts the Writers Here & Literary Reading Series and the VONA/ Now reading series and an Artists-in- University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Voices workshop. Annual tuition is Residence program. Annual in-state MFA Program, 465 Bartlett Hall, 130 $33,300. All students receive a Michener tuition is $11,376; out-of-state tuition Hicks Way, Amherst, MA 01003. (413) Fellowship or teaching assistantship, is $24,534. Up to 15 teaching assistant- 545-0643. Barbara McGlynn, Administra- which includes a full tuition waiver and a ships, which include a full tuition waiver, tive Assistant. $15,965 stipend. Submit application ma- health insurance, and an $18,000 stipend [email protected] terials, including GRE scores, with a $65 each, are available each year; up to five www.umass.edu/english/MFA_home.htm application fee by February 1, 2016. Call, teaching assistantships are supplemented University of Massachusetts in e-mail, or visit the website for complete by additional Dean’s Fellowships worth Boston requirements and guidelines. $5,000 each. All second-year students This three-year program, founded in University of Miami, English Depart- receive a graduate assistantship, a 2007, offers degrees in poetry and fic- ment, P.O. Box 248145, Coral Gables, lectureship, or a combination of both; tion, and accepts 10 new students each FL 33124. (305) 284-2182. M. Evelina lectureships include a half-tuition waiver year. The core faculty includes poets Galang, Director. [email protected] and a stipend, and graduate assistant- Jill McDonough, Joyce Peseroff, and www.as.miami.edu/english/creativewriting ships include a full tuition waiver and Lloyd Schwartz; and fiction writers John /master-of-fine-arts a stipend. Submit application materials Fulton and Askold Melnyczuk. The in Ann with a $75 application fee by January 15, program hosts the Global Voices reading Arbor 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for series, the Pub Nights series, and the This two- to three-year program, complete requirements and guidelines. SUBMITATHON submission sessions. founded in 1982, offers degrees in poetry University of Maryland, MFA Program Other features include internships and fiction, and accepts 22 new students in Creative Writing, English Depart- with local organizations 826 Boston, each year. The core faculty includes po- ment, 2119 Tawes Hall, College Park, MD GrubStreet, Veterans Upward Bound, ets Linda Gregerson, Laura Kasischke, 20742. (301) 405-3820. Lindsay Bernal, and a poetry club in a men’s prison; the Khaled Mattawa, and Keith Taylor; and Academic Coordinator. literary magazines Breakwater Review, fiction writers Michael Byers, Peter Ho [email protected] CONSEQUENCE, and Salamander; and Davies, Eileen Pollack, Douglas Trevor, www.english.umd.edu/academics/creativewriting Broadsided Press, Hanging Loose Press, and Claire Vaye Watkins. The Delbanco

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Visiting Professor is poet Tarfia Faizul- $14,500. Submit application materials [email protected] lah. The program hosts the Zell Visiting with a $75 application fee by December mfaenglish.olemiss.edu Writers Series, through which visiting 1. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for University of Missouri in writers give readings, hold craft talks, complete requirements and guidelines. Kansas City Full-Residency lead workshops, and offer individual University of Minnesota, Creative Writing This two- to three-year program, consultations with students. Other fea- Program, 207 Church Street SE, 207 founded in 2009, offers degrees in tures include opportunities to teach with Lind Hall, Minneapolis, MN 55455. (612) poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, 826michigan and InsideOut Detroit, 625-4360. Holly Vanderhaar, Program as well as playwriting and screenwrit- work on the Best American Nonrequired Coordinator. [email protected] ing, and accepts 15 new students each Reading anthology, read submissions for creativewriting.umn.edu year. The core faculty includes poets Michigan Quarterly Review and Canarium University of Mississippi in Hadara Bar-Nadav, Michelle Boisseau, Books, curate the student reading series, and Robert Stewart; fiction writer Mi- and partner with other area literary Oxford This three-year program, founded in chael Pritchett; and fiction and creative organizations. Annual in-state tuition is nonfiction writers Christie Hodgen and $20,406; out-of-state tuition is $40,892. 2000, offers degrees in poetry and fic- tion, and accepts eight new students each Whitney Terrell. The program hosts All first-year students receive a fellow- summer workshops and five reading ship or combination of a gradership and year. The core faculty includes poets series. Other features include New Let- a fellowship, which includes a full tuition Beth Ann Fennelly, Ann Fisher-Wirth, ters Magazine and New Letters on the waiver, health benefits, a stipend of and Derrick Harriell; and fiction writers Air, and opportunities to intern with $16,000, and $6,000 in summer fund- Matt Bondurant, Tom Franklin, and local partners, including the Kansas City ing. All second-year students receive a Chris Offutt. The Grisham Writer in Star and Andrews McMeel Publishing. Graduate Student Instructorship, which Residence for 2015–2016 will be fiction Annual in-state tuition is $4,833; out- requires teaching one course per semes- writer Kiese Laymon. The program of-state tuition is $12,478. Up to seven ter and includes a full tuition waiver, hosts the John and Renee Grisham Visit- teaching assistantships, which include a health care benefits, and a $18,600 ing Writers Series, the Oxford Confer- full tuition waiver and a $8,000 stipend stipend. All graduates are eligible for ence on the Book, and a student-run each; and up to three Durwood Fellow- post-MFA funding through the Helen reading series. Other features include ships, which include a full tuition waiver Zell Writers’ Program worth $27,500. the student-run literary journal Yalo- and a $25,000 stipend each, are available Submit application materials with a $75 busha Review. Annual in-state tuition is each year. Submit application materials, application fee by January 1, 2016. Call, $7,344; out-of-state tuition is $20,574. including GRE scores, with a $45 ap- e-mail, or visit the website for complete All students receive a full tuition waiver, plication fee ($35 for online applications) requirements and guidelines. health benefits, and either a teaching as- by January 15, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit University of Michigan, Helen Zell Writ- sistantship worth $11,500 each year or a Grisham Fellowship worth $14,000 each the website for complete requirements ers’ Program, 3187 Angell Hall, 435 South and guidelines. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. (734) year. Summer fellowships are available to University of Missouri, English Depart- 615-3710. Airea D. Matthews, Assistant second-year students; additional fellow- ment, 106 Cockefair Hall, 5100 Rockhill Director. [email protected] ships are available for third-year students Road, Kansas City, MO 64110. (816) www.lsa.umich.edu/writers and minority students. All students receive $300 in travel funding each year. 235-2561. Michael Pritchett, Director. University of Minnesota in Submit application materials, including [email protected] Minneapolis GRE scores, by January 5, 2016. There cas.umkc.edu/english/grad-program/mfa.asp This three-year program, founded in is no application fee. Call, e-mail, or visit University of Missouri in St. 1997, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, the website for complete requirements Louis and creative nonfiction, and accepts 12 and guidelines. This three-year program, founded in new students each year. The core faculty University of Mississippi, English 1997, offers degrees in poetry and fic- includes poets Peter Campion and Ray Department, Bondurant Hall C135, P.O. tion, and accepts 12 new students each Gonzalez; fiction writers Charles Baxter, Box 1848, University, MS 38677. (662) year. The core faculty includes poets M. J. Fitzgerald, V. V. Ganeshananthan, 915-7439. Blair Hobbs, MFA Liaison. Steven Schreiner and Shane Seely, and and Julie Schumacher; and nonfic- tion writers Patricia Hampl, Madelon Sprengnether, and Kim Todd. The program hosts the Edelstein-Keller Vis- iting Writers Series, the Charles Baxter’s Faculty Annual Benefit for Hunger, and the First Books reading and reception. Annual Read the work of the writers on the faculty and in-state tuition is $15,844; out-of-state identify those whose work challenges and excites tuition is $24,508. All students receive you. Inquire whether any of them will be on a teaching assistantship, which requires teaching one course per semester and sabbatical during your residency. Ask around to see includes a full tuition waiver, health in- if their teaching matches their writing talents. surance, and a stipend of approximately

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fiction writers John Dalton and Mary Troy. The program hosts visiting writers and the Natural Bridge Debut Writers Curriculum Series. Other features include the stu- Is the program focused on craft or does it involve dent-run journal Natural Bridge and op- portunities to teach through the Writers graduate work in literature? Consult the course in the Schools program. Annual in-state offerings—are they too traditional, too experimental, tuition is $5,230; out-of-state tuition is or somewhere in between? Does the program offer $12,588. Three teaching assistantships and two tutor positions, which include a cross-genre study?

Full-Residency full tuition waiver and an annual $12,000 stipend each; five graduate research as- sistantships worth $5,000 to $9,000 each; and work study positions worth $12,000 editorial work for the undergraduate scores, with a $60 application fee by each are available each year. Submit ap- literary journal Oval, worth $6,000; three January 15, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit plication materials, including GRE scores creative writing teaching positions for the website for complete requirements to be eligible for funding, with a $50 the university’s three-week Winterses- and guidelines. application fee by March 1, 2016. Call, sion program, worth $3,300 each; and University of Nevada in Las Vegas, e-mail, or visit the website for complete up to 12 scholarships worth $800 to English Department, 4505 Maryland requirements and guidelines. $6,000 each are available for second- Parkway, Box 455011, Mail Stop 5011, Las year students who don’t receive funding. University of Missouri, English Depart- Vegas, NV 89154. (702) 895-4366. Clau- Submit application materials, including ment, Graduate School, 1 University dia Keelan, Creative Writing Coordinator. GRE scores, with a $60 application fee by Boulevard, 484 Lucas Hall, St. Louis, [email protected] January 6, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the MO 63121. (314) 516-5583. Steven Sch- english.unlv.edu/mfa website for complete requirements and reiner, Director. [email protected] University of New Mexico in guidelines. umsl.edu/~mfa Albuquerque University of Montana, Creative Writing University of Montana in This three-year program, founded in Program, English Department, 32 Cam- Missoula 2005, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, pus Drive, Liberal Arts 133, Missoula, MT This two- to three-year program, and creative nonfiction, and accepts 59812. (406) 243-5267. Karin Schalm, six new students each year. The core founded in 1964, offers degrees in Creative Writing Program Coordinator. poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, faculty includes poets Mark Caughey [email protected] and Luci Tapahonso; fiction writers and accepts 22 new students each year. www.cas.umt.edu/creativewriting The core faculty includes poets Joanna Andrew Bourelle, Daniel Mueller, Julie Klink, Greg Pape, Prageeta Sharma, and University of Nevada in Las Shigekuni, Jack Trujillo, and Sharon Karen Volkman; fiction writers Kevin Vegas Oard Warner; creative nonfiction writ- Canty, Debra Magpie Earling, David This three-year program, founded in ers Steve Benz, David Dunaway, and Gates, and Dierdre McNamer; and 1997, offers degrees in poetry and fic- Gregory Martin; poet and fiction writer nonfiction writer Judy Blunt. The Fall tion, and accepts 10 new students each Marisa P. Clark; poet and nonfiction 2015 writer-in-residence is fiction and year. The core faculty includes poets writer Diane Thiel; and poet, fiction nonfiction writer Bernard Cooper; the Claudia Keelan and Donald Revell, writer, and nonfiction writer Michelle Spring 2016 writer-in-residence is poet and fiction writers Maile Chapman and Brooks. The program hosts the Works- Stefania Heim. The program offers the Douglas Unger. The program hosts an in-Progress monthly reading series and student-run reading series Second Wind; emerging writers series. Other features the Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, a biennial publishing conference; and include a cross-genre writing require- which offers internships to students. the Merriam-Frontier Award, a chap- ment, a requirement to study abroad for Other features include the student-run book contest. Other features include the one semester, the option for students to literary journal Blue Mesa Review, as well student-run literary magazine CutBank. complete their final year while serving as opportunities to work and intern at Annual in-state tuition is $5,177; out- in the Peace Corps, and opportunities to University of New Mexico Press. Annual of-state tuition is $23,790. One Truman read for the literary magazines Interim in-state tuition is $4,989; out-of-state Capote Fellowship, which includes a full and Witness. The program is affiliated tuition is $14,656. All students receive a tuition waiver and an annual $14,000 with the Black Mountain Institute, teaching assistantship, which includes a stipend; up to 13 teaching assistantships, which hosts a reading and panels series, full tuition waiver and an annual stipend which include a full tuition waiver and a fellowship program, and a transla- of $15,000 to $16,000. Submit applica- an annual $14,000 stipend each; and two tion series. Annual in-state tuition is tion materials with a $50 application fee scholarships worth approximately $3,000 $4,752; out-of-state tuition is $18,662. by January 15, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit to $5,500 each are available for first-year All students receive a graduate assistant- the website for complete requirements students. One CutBank editorial fellow- ship, which includes a three-quarter and guidelines. ship, which includes a full tuition waiver in-state tuition waiver, discounted health University of New Mexico, MFA Program and a $14,000 stipend; one research benefits, and a $13,000 stipend. Submit in Creative Writing, English Department, assistantship position, which requires application materials, including GRE 1 University of New Mexico, MSC03

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2170, Albuquerque, NM 87131. (505) craft talks, and panel discussions. Other english.nd.edu/creative-writing 277-6347. Luci Tapahonso, Contact. features include the literary journals University of Oregon in Eugene [email protected] Chautauqua and Ecotone; apprenticeships This two-year program, founded in english.unm.edu/graduate/master-of-fine-arts with the Publishing Laboratory, which 1966, offers degrees in poetry and fic- Full-Residency University of New Orleans in hosts the Lookout Books imprint; and tion, and accepts 10 new students each Louisiana opportunities to participate in outreach year. The core faculty includes poets This three-year program, founded in programs at local schools and organiza- Daniel Anderson, Geri Doran, and 1991, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, tions. Annual in-state tuition is $4,329; Garrett Hongo; and fiction writers Jason and creative nonfiction, as well as play- out-of-state tuition is $16,420. Up to 28 Brown, Marjorie Celona, and Ehud writing and screenwriting, and accepts teaching assistantships, worth $15,000 Havazelet. The program hosts a reading 20 to 30 new students each year. The each; nine full tuition waivers; multiple series with six visiting writers each year. core faculty includes poets John Gery graduate assistantships worth $2,000 Other features include the student-run and Carolyn Hembree; fiction writers to $15,000 each; and up to four fellow- reading series Live-Lit West and the Fredrick Barton, Barb Johnson, Joanna ships worth $1,000 to $10,000 each are opportunity for each first-year student Leake, and M. O. Walsh; and nonfiction available each year. Submit application to take a term-long individual tutorial writers Randy Bates and Richard Good- materials with a $60 application fee by with a faculty member. Annual in-state man. The program hosts the Tennessee January 5, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the tuition is $14,256; out-of-state tuition is Williams Festival, weekly outings to website for complete requirements and $24,165. All students receive a teaching pubs, and a student-run monthly reading guidelines. assistantship, which includes a full tuition series. Other features include opportuni- University of North Carolina Wilmington, waiver, health benefits, and an $18,000 ties to work with Bayou Magazine and English Department, 601 South College stipend. Submit application materials UNO press, and to study abroad during Road, Wilmington, NC 28403. (910) with a $50 application fee by January 15, the summers. Annual in-state tuition is 962-3436. Mark Cox, MFA Coordinator. 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for $6,090; out-of-state tuition is $19,529. [email protected] complete application requirements and Up to 10 assistantships, which include www.uncw.edu/writers/mfa guidelines. a full tuition waiver and a stipend of up University of Notre Dame in University of Oregon, Creative Writing to $5,400 each, are available each year. Indiana Program, 108 Alder Building, 5243 Uni- Privateer Graduate Awards, which confer This two-year program, founded in versity of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403. in-state tuition status, are available each 1990, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, (541) 346-0552. George Rowe, Director. year on a competitive basis. Submit and creative nonfiction, and accepts nine [email protected] application materials, including GRE new students each year. The core faculty crwr.uoregon.edu scores, with a $20 application fee by includes poets Johannes Göransson, January 15, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit University of Pittsburgh in Joyelle McSweeney, and Orlando Menes; Pennsylvania the website for complete requirements and fiction writers Valerie Sayers, Steve and guidelines. This three-year program, founded in Tomasula, and Azareen Van der Vliet 1978, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, University of New Orleans, Creative Writ- Oloomi. The program hosts a reading and creative nonfiction, and accepts 12 ing Workshop, English Department, 201 series as well as opportunities to partici- to 18 new students each year. The core Liberal Arts Building, 2000 Lakeshore pate in outreach at local schools, justice faculty includes poets Lynn Emanuel, Drive, New Orleans, LA 70148. (504) centers, and community organizations. Yona Harvey, Terrance Hayes, and Dawn 280-6276. M. O. Walsh, Director. Other features include the press Action Lundy Martin; fiction writers Fiona [email protected] Books, the literary magazine Notre Cheong, Angie Cruz, William Lychack, www.uno.edu/creative-writing-mfa Dame Review, the student-run journals and Irina Reyn; and nonfiction writers University of North Carolina in Re:Visions and the Bend, and opportuni- Jeanne Marie Laskas, Michael Meyer, Wilmington ties to intern at publishing houses and and Peter Trachtenberg. The program This three-year program, founded in agencies in New York City. Annual hosts the Pittsburgh Contemporary 1997, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, tuition is $47,700. All students receive a Writers Series. Other features include and creative nonfiction, and accepts fellowship, which includes a full tuition the literary journal Hot Metal Bridge; in- 20 to 22 new students each year. The waiver, health benefits, and an annual ternships with the website longform.org, core faculty includes poets Mark Cox, $12,500 stipend; fellows are expected to which aggregates online nonfiction; Malena Mörling, and Michael White; teach or work on program outreach and courses in digital literature and literary fiction writers Wendy Brenner, Nina de publications. Submit application materi- medical journalism; travel grants to at- Gramont, Clyde Edgerton, Rebecca Lee, als, including GRE scores, with a $75 tend conferences and present papers; and and Robert Anthony Siegel; nonfic- application fee by January 2, 2016. Visit University of Pittsburgh Press, which tion writers May-lee Chai, Philip Furia, the website for complete requirements awards the annual Drue Heinz Prize for Philip Gerard, and David Gessner; and and guidelines. Literature and the annual Agnes Lynch editors Anna Lena Phillips, Emily Louise University of Notre Dame, English Starrett Prize for Poetry. Annual in-state Smith, and Beth Staples. The program Department, 356 O’Shaughnessy Hall, tuition is $21,260; out-of-state tuition hosts a monthlong visiting writers and Notre Dame, IN 46556. (574) 631-7526. is $34,944. Six teaching assistantships, editors series and Writers Week, an an- Coleen Hoover, Program Coordinator. which include a full tuition waiver, health nual event offering readings, workshops, [email protected] benefits, and a $17,130 stipend, are

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available to first-year students; approxi- University of South Carolina in All students receive a teaching assistant- mately nine graduate student assistant- Columbia ship, which includes a full tuition waiver, ships, which include a full tuition waiver, This three-year program, founded in health benefits, and an $11,500 stipend. health benefits, and either a $6,990 or 1990, offers degrees in poetry and fic- Some summer teaching appointments a $13,980 stipend each, are available to tion, and accepts 10 new students each and partial tuition waivers are available. second- and third-year students; and year. The core faculty includes poets Submit application materials, including occasionally one K. Leroy Irvis Fel- Samuel Amadon, Fred Dings, and Nikky GRE scores, with a $30 application fee by lowship, which includes a full tuition Finney; fiction writers David Bajo and January 1, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the waiver, health benefits, a stipend of at Elise Blackwell; and nonfiction writer website for complete requirements and least $21,162, a $250 book allowance, Jim Barilla. The program hosts multiple guidelines.

Full-Residency and one-on-one mentoring with a faculty literary series and master classes. Other University of South Florida, English De- member, is available each year to a mi- features include the student-run literary partment, CPR 107, 4202 East Fowler Av- nority student. Submit application ma- journal Yemassee and opportunities to enue, Tampa, FL 33620. (813) 974-9570. terials, including GRE scores, with a $50 teach through Split P, a Writers in the Rita Ciresi, Director. [email protected] application fee by January 7, 2016. Call, Schools program. Annual in-state tuition english.usf.edu/graduate/concentrations/cw e-mail, or visit the website for complete is $9,288; out-of-state tuition is $19,899. /degrees/ requirements and guidelines. Most first-year students receive either University of Tennessee in University of Pittsburgh, English Depart- a teaching assistantship, which includes Knoxville a full tuition waiver and a $12,800 ment, 526 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 This two-year program, founded in Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. (412) stipend, or an instructional assistantship, 2014, offers degrees in poetry and fic- 624-6549. Jesse Daugherty, Graduate which confers in-state tuition status and tion, and accepts five new students each Administrator. [email protected] includes a half-tuition waiver and an year. The core faculty includes poets www.writing.pitt.edu $8,125 stipend. All second- and third- Marilyn Kallet and Arthur Smith; fiction University of San Francisco in year students receive a teaching assistant- writer Michael Knight; and fiction and California ship, which includes a full tuition waiver nonfiction writer Margaret Lazarus and a $12,800 stipend. Dickey Fellow- This two- to three-year program, Dean. The program hosts a reading ships and additional fellowships worth founded in 1986, offers degrees in poetry, series. Other features include the literary $3,000 to $6,000 each are also available fiction, and creative nonfiction, and magazine Grist; opportunities to meet each year. Submit application materi- accepts 35 new students each year. The with visiting agents and editors; oppor- als, including GRE scores, with a $50 core faculty includes poets D. A. Powell tunities to conduct community out- application fee by December 15. Call, and Bruce Snider; fiction writers Stephen reach with the Brian M. Conley Young e-mail, or visit the website for complete Beachy, Catherine Brady, Lewis Buzbee, Writers’ Institute; travel and research requirements and guidelines. Nina Schuyler, K. M. Soehnlein, and funds; and pedagogical training and Susan Steinberg; and nonfiction writers University of South Carolina, English De- opportunities to tutor at the university’s Dave Madden, Bich Minh Nguyen, and partment, Humanities Office Building, writing center. Annual in-state tuition is Ryan Van Meter. The program hosts a Columbia, SC 29208. (803) 777-5063. Liz $10,618; out-of-state tuition is $28,806. reading series, the Emerging Writers Countryman, MFA Coordinator. All students receive a teaching fellow- Festival, the Life After the MFA symposia, [email protected] ship, which includes a full tuition waiver, and faculty and student readings. Other artsandsciences.sc.edu/engl/mfa-program health benefits, and an $11,800 stipend features include the student-run journal -carolina for the first year and a $13,500 stipend Switchback and opportunities to work with University of South Florida in for the second year. Submit application local literary and service organizations. Tampa materials, including GRE scores, with a $60 application fee by January 15, 2016. Annual tuition is $18,675. Fifteen to This three-year program, founded in twenty fellowships, which include partial Call, e-mail, or visit the website for com- 2006, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, plete requirements and guidelines. tuition waivers; ten to twelve paid teach- and creative nonfiction, as well as graph- ing assistantships; and two postgraduate ic narrative, and accepts 10 new students University of Tennessee, English Depart- teaching fellowships are available each each year. The core faculty includes ment, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN year. The Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poetry poets Hunt Hawkins and Jay Hopler; 37996. (865) 974-5401. Margaret Lazarus Fellowship, which includes a full tuition fiction writers Karen Brown, Rita Ciresi, Dean, Contact. [email protected] waiver, is available biennially and will be John Henry Fleming, and Jarod Roselló; english.utk.edu/creative-writing-program granted in 2017. Submit application ma- nonfiction writer Ira Sukrungruang; University of Texas in Austin terials with a $55 application fee by Janu- and poet and nonfiction writer Heather (Michener Center) ary 15, 2016. Call or visit the website for Sellers. The program hosts the Florida This three-year program, founded in complete requirements and guidelines. Literary Arts Coalition reading series, 1993, offers degrees in poetry and fic- University of San Francisco, MFA in the student-run colloquium Blank Pages, tion, as well as playwriting and screen- Writing Program, 2130 Fulton Street, the student-run reading series 6 X 6, and writing, and accepts 12 new students San Francisco, CA 94117. (415) 422- a National Poetry Month celebration. each year. The core faculty includes 6208. Micah Ballard, Director of Other features include the literary maga- poets Kurt Heinzelman, Lisa Olstein, Administration. zine Saw Palm. Annual in-state tuition is and Dean Young; and fiction writers www.usfca.edu/mfaw $6,262; out-of-state tuition is $13,904. Michael Adams, Edward Carey, Oscar

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/ogs_home/ogs_web/ogs_images_files_utrgv /Creative%20Writing%20(MFA).pdf Diversity University of Utah in Salt Lake

Will you have a chance to learn from—and with—a City Full-Residency diverse group of writers representing a balanced This two- to three-year program, found- ed in 1983, offers degrees in poetry, fic- range of gender, genre, age, ethnicity, and other tion, and creative nonfiction, and accepts considerations that are important to you? 10 to 15 new students each year. Stu- dents can also pursue a multidisciplinary MFA by combining writing coursework with classes in book arts, environmen- Cásares, Peter LaSalle, James Magnuson, tion materials, including GRE scores, tal humanities, and the history of the Elizabeth McCracken, and Deb Olin with a $65 application fee by December American West. The core faculty in- Unferth. The program hosts a visiting 15. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for cludes poets Katharine Coles, Jacqueline writers series and a reading series. Other complete requirements and guidelines. Osherow, and Paisley Rekdal; and fiction features include the student-run liter- University of Texas in Austin, New writers Michael Mejia, Lance Olsen, and ary magazine Bat City Review, and the Writers Project, English Department, Melanie Rae Thon. The program hosts $50,000 Keene Prize for Literature, giv- 204 West 21st Street, B5000, Austin, the Guest Writer Series, the Utah Sym- en annually to a student. Annual in-state TX 78712. (512) 475-6356. Patricia posium in Science and Literature, and tuition is approximately $8,000; out-of- Schaub, Graduate Program Coordinator. the student-run Working Dog monthly state tuition is approximately $16,000. [email protected] reading series. Other features include All students receive a full tuition waiver, newwritersproject.org internships and paid editorial positions an annual $27,500 stipend, and are at the press Fiction Collective Two, the University of Texas Rio eligible to apply for professional-devel- student-run literary journals Quarterly Grande Valley in Edinburg and opment summer funding, worth $3,000 Brownsville West and Western Humanities Review, and each year. Submit application materi- the online archives Eclipse and Mapping als, including GRE scores, with a $65 This two- to three-year program, found- Salt Lake City. Annual in-state tuition is application fee by December 15. Call, ed in 2006, offers degrees in poetry, fic- $6,721; out-of-state tuition is $21,295. tion, creative nonfiction, and translation, e-mail, or visit the website for complete Up to two teaching assistantships worth as well as playwriting and screenwriting, requirements and guidelines. $14,500 each are occasionally available to and accepts up to 15 new students each first-year students. Two to four Uni- University of Texas in Austin, Michener year. The core faculty includes poets versity or College Scholarships worth Center, 702 East Dean Keeton Street, Elvia Ardalani, Emmy Pérez, and Steven $15,000 each are occasionally available to Austin, TX 78705. (512) 471-1601. Schneider; fiction writers Britt Haraway second- or third-year students. Submit Marla Akin, Senior Program Coordinator. and Eric Miles Williamson; and creative application materials, including GRE [email protected] nonfiction writer Jean Braithwaite. The scores, with a $55 application fee by www.utexas.edu/academic/mcw program is part of the University of December 15. Call, e-mail, or visit the University of Texas in Austin Texas Rio Grande Valley, a bilingual and website for complete requirements and (New Writers Project) binational university, and offers courses guidelines. This two-year program, founded in on both the Edinburg and Brownsville 2010, offers degrees in poetry and fic- campuses. The program offers a literary University of Utah, English Department, tion, and accepts seven new students translation concentration in Spanish and Languages & Communication Building, each year. The core faculty includes English, and many courses are conducted 255 South Central Campus Drive, RM poets Lisa Olstein and Dean Young, in Spanish. Other features include the 3500, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. (801) 581- and fiction writers Edward Carey, literary journal RiverSedge. Annual in- 7131. Gerri Mackey, Graduate Academic Oscar Cásares, Peter LaSalle, Elizabeth state tuition is $6,520; out-of-state Advisor. [email protected] McCracken, and Deb Olin Unferth. tuition is $13,540. Up to four teaching english.utah.edu/creative-writing The program hosts a reading series for assistantships worth $5,000 each semes- University of Victoria in British visiting writers, who also work with ter are available each year. Submit ap- Columbia, Canada students. Other features include editorial plication materials with a $50 application This two-year program, founded in positions with Bat City Review and the fee by October 1 for the spring term, or 2008, offers degrees in poetry, fic- PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories anthology; by April 1, 2016, for the fall term. E-mail tion, and creative nonfiction, as well and the Keene Prize for Literature, given or visit the website for complete require- as playwriting and screenwriting, and annually to a University of Texas student ments and guidelines. accepts five new students each year. The for a work of poetry, fiction, or nonfic- University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, core faculty includes poet Tim Lilburn; tion. Annual in-state tuition is $8,088; Creative Writing Program, College of fiction writers , Lee Hender- out-of-state tuition is $16,032. All stu- Fine Arts, 1201 West University Drive, son, and Lorna Jackson; and nonfiction dents receive a teaching assistantship or Edinburg, TX 78539. Philip Zwerling, writer David Leach. The program offers fellowship, which includes a full tuition Program Director. opportunities to intern at local literary waiver, health benefits, and a stipend of [email protected] magazines and publishers. Tuition in- approximately $13,500. 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graduate awards worth $7,000 for first- Heuving; and prose writers Ted Hiebert terdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Gradu- year students, and up to five teaching as- and Joe Milutis. Aeron Bergman, Re- ate Office, Box 358511, 18115 Campus Way sistantships worth approximately $8,000 becca Brown, and Alejandra Salinas are NE, Bothell, WA 98011. (425) 352-3406. for second-year students are available artists-in-residence. The program, which Kate Osmond, Admissions Advisor. each year. Submit application materials is focused on poetics, hosts the annual [email protected] with a $140.50 Canadian (approximately Fall Convergence, a poetics conference; www.uwb.edu/mfa $107) application fee ($114.50 for do- the annual Spring Festival; and the Con- University of Washington in mestic applicants) by December 1. Call, vergence Zone, a visiting artist series. Seattle e-mail, or visit the website for complete requirements and guidelines. Other features include the student-run This two-year program, founded in journal Small Po[r]tions and the micro- 1947, offers degrees in poetry and prose, Full-Residency University of Victoria, Writing Depart- press Letter[r] Press. Students have the and accepts 10 new students each year. ment, P.O. Box 1700, Station CSC, option to complete their second year of The core faculty includes poets Linda Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 2Y2, Canada. (25) 721-6308. Maureen Bradley, the program as low-residency, with no Bierds, Andrew Feld, Richard Kenney, Graduate Advisor. [email protected] on-campus residency required. Annual and Pimone Triplett; and prose writers finearts.uvic.ca/writing/future/overview/grad tuition is approximately $18,600. Up to David Bosworth, David Shields, and -program.html two scholarships, which include a full Maya Sonenberg. The program hosts tuition waiver; and five to seven scholar- University of Virginia in the annual Theodore Roethke Memorial ships worth $2,000 each are available Charlottesville Reading. Other features include the lit- each year. Additional funding to attend This two-year program, founded in erary journal Seattle Review; the student- conferences and conduct community 1981, offers degrees in poetry and fic- run reading series Castalia; internships at tion, and accepts 10 new students each outreach is available on a competitive Wave Books; and opportunities to teach year. The core faculty includes poets basis. Submit application materials with through Writers in the Schools. Annual Rita Dove, Paul Guest, Debra Nystrom, an $85 application fee by February 1, in-state tuition is $15,207; out-of-state Gregory Orr, and Lisa Russ Spaar; 2016; admissions thereafter are made on tuition is $27,255. All students receive and fiction writers Jane Alison, Jeffery a rolling basis. Call, e-mail, or visit the a teaching assistantship, a Seattle Review Renard Allen, Sydney Blair, John Casey, website for complete requirements and editorial position, or a fellowship, which Elizabeth Denton, Jeb Livingood, and guidelines. includes a full tuition waiver, health Christopher Tilghman. The program University of Washington in Bothell, In- benefits, and a stipend, worth a total of hosts the Kapnick Distinguished Writer- in-Residence Program and the Rea Writer Series, which includes weeklong visits and one-on-one conferences with Notes notable writers. Other features include the literary magazine Meridian and the $10,000 Henfield Prize, given for the best work of fiction written by a student in the program. Annual in-state tuition is $15,224; out-of-state tuition is $25,174. All students receive a full tuition waiver, health benefits, and a $17,000 stipend in the first year and an $18,000 stipend in the second year. Submit application materials with an $85 application fee by December 15. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for complete requirements and guidelines. University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400121, Charlottesvile, VA 22904. (434) 924- 6675. Jeb Livingood, Associate Director. [email protected] creativewriting.virginia.edu University of Washington in Bothell This two-year program, founded in 2011, offers an open-genre degree, and accepts 18 new students each year. The core faculty includes poets Amaranth Borsuk, Sarah Dowling, and Jeanne

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$34,000. One Pollock/GO-MAP Fellow- Northrop, and David Romtvedt; fiction view, and opportunities to volunteer at ship for students of color and students of writers Alyson Hagy and Brad Watson; youth camps and lead prison writing underrepresented groups, which includes and nonfiction writers Andrew Fitch, Jeff workshops. Annual tuition for first-year a full tuition waiver, health benefits, and Lockwood, and Beth Loffreda. Fiction students is $43,632. All students receive Full-Residency a $20,000 stipend, is available each year. writer Nam Le is a writer-in-residence a full tuition waiver, health benefits, and Submit application materials, including for 2015–2016. The program hosts a an annual stipend of $24,500, which requires first-year students to work at the GRE scores, with an $85 application fee visiting writers series and a writer-in- Vanderbilt Writing Studio, and second- by January 2, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit residence. Other features include oppor- year students to teach undergraduate the website for complete requirements tunities to work with Essay Press. Annual creative writing. Submit application and guidelines. in-state tuition is $4,176; out-of-state materials, including GRE scores, by University of Washington in Seattle, tuition is $12,474. All students receive a December 15. There is no application English Department, P.O. Box 354330, teaching assistantship, which includes a fee. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for Seattle, WA 98195. (206) 543-9865. Judy full tuition waiver, health benefits, and complete requirements and guidelines. LeRoux, Academic Counseling Services a $12,078 stipend; a $2,000 summer sti- Vanderbilt University, Creative Writ- Coordinator, Creative Writing. pend between the first and second year; ing, 331 Benson Hall, PNB 351654, 2301 [email protected] and a $100 allowance for travel, research, Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37235. depts.washington.edu/engl/cw and publication. The program also funds (615) 322-6527. Margaret Quigley, MFA University of Wisconsin in weeklong residencies at the Shortgrass Program Assistant. Madison Steppe station in northern Colorado for [email protected] This two-year program, founded in all second-year students. Submit applica- www.vanderbilt.edu/creativewriting 2002, offers degrees in poetry and fic- tion materials, including GRE scores, College of Fine Arts in tion in alternating years, and accepts with a $50 application fee (fee waivers Montpelier six new students each year. The core are available) by January 10, 2016. Call, This two-year program, founded in faculty includes poets Amy Quan Barry, e-mail, or visit the website for complete 2014, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Sean Bishop, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, requirements and guidelines. and creative nonfiction, as well as new and Ron Wallace; and fiction writers University of Wyoming, English De- media and writing for stage and screen, Danielle Evans, Jesse Lee Kercheval, partment 3353, MFA Creative Writing and accepts 10 to 20 new students each Ron Kuka, and Judith Claire Mitchell. Program, 1000 East University Avenue, year. The core faculty includes poet The program features the student-run Laramie, WY 82071. (307) 766-6453. Matthew Dickman; fiction writers Janet literary journal Devil’s Lake and cross- Gwynn Lemler, Program Coordinator. Fitch and Richard Raynor; nonfiction genre workshops in creative nonfiction, [email protected] writers M. G. Lord and David Ulin; cartooning, and playwriting. Annual www.uwyo.edu/creativewriting poets and nonfiction writers Allison in-state tuition is $11,870; out-of-state Vanderbilt University in Adelle, Hedge Coke, and Mary Ruefle; tuition is $25,197. All students receive Nashville, Tennessee and fiction and nonfiction writers a scholarship worth $20,000 over two This two- to three-year program, Bernard Cooper, Trinie Dalton, and years and a teaching assistantship, which founded in 2006, offers degrees in poetry Martha Southgate. The program offers a includes a full tuition waiver, health and fiction, and accepts six new students cross-genre focus and cross-disciplinary benefits, and an annual $11,300 stipend. each year. The core faculty includes opportunities with the college’s six For the 2016–2017 year, the program poets Beth Bachmann, Kate Daniels, low-residency arts programs. Other will accept fiction students. Submit ap- Rick Hilles, and Mark Jarman; fiction plication materials with a $56 application writers Tony Earley, Lorraine López, features include opportunities to meet fee by December 15. Call, e-mail, or visit Lorrie Moore, and Nancy Reisman; and with visiting artists, writers, editors, and the website for complete requirements nonfiction writer . The publishers; intern and work with the and guidelines. program hosts the Gertrude and Harold literary magazines Hunger Mountain and S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series. Music & Literature Magazine; and take University of Wisconsin, MFA Program Other features include the student-run courses in print and digital publishing. in Creative Writing, 6195 Helen C. White Hall, 600 North Park Street, Madison, online literary journal Nashville Re- Annual tuition is $27,500. One Tamarack WI 53706. (608) 263-3658. Sean Bishop, MFA Coordinator. [email protected] www.creativewriting.wisc.edu University of Wyoming in Size Laramie Program size, class size, the size of the city in which This two-year program, founded in 2008, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, the program is located—each one matters. Do you and creative nonfiction, and accepts 9 want to be one among many, or would you prefer to 12 new students each year. The core more concentrated attention? faculty includes poets Harvey Hix, Kate

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Award, which includes a partial tuition conferences. Annual in-state tuition is NW, Blacksburg, VA 24061. (540) 980- waiver; one Hunger Mountain Fellow- $10,627; out-of-state tuition is $21,850. 6202. Erika Meitner, Director. ship, which includes a $10,000 annual All full-time students receive a teaching [email protected] stipend in exchange for editorial work on or research assistantship, which includes www.graduate.english.vt.edu/MFA the journal; a publishing and fieldwork a full tuition waiver and a stipend worth Washington University in St. teaching assistantship; and an editorial $14,000 to $22,000 each year. Submit Louis, Missouri assistantship with Music & Literature application materials with a $65 ap- This two-year program, founded in plication fee by January 15, 2016. Call, Magazine are available each year. Schol- 1980, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, e-mail, or visit the website for complete arships are also available for one student and creative nonfiction, and accepts 10 requirements and guidelines. who specializes in new media and inno- to 15 new students each year. The core Full-Residency vative text, and for students who identify Virginia Commonwealth University, faculty includes poets Mary Jo Bang and English Department, 900 Park Avenue, with or have working experience with Carl Phillips; fiction writers Kathryn Hibbs Hall, Room 306, P.O. Box 842005, people from diverse cultural and ethnic Davis, Danielle Dutton, and Marshall Richmond, VA 23284. (804) 828-1329. backgrounds. To be eligible for fund- Klimasewiski; and nonfiction writers Thom Didato, Graduate Programs Advi- Kathleen Finneran and Edward McPher- ing, submit application materials with sor. [email protected] son. The program hosts the Ferris a $75 application fee by December 16; english.vcu.edu/mfa the deadline for regular applications is Reading Series and the Hurst Reading Virginia Tech in Blacksburg February 24, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit Series, which features the Visiting Hurst the website for complete requirements This three-year program, founded Professors. Other features include op- and guidelines. in 2005, offers degrees in poetry and portunities to participate in community fiction, and accepts seven to eight new Vermont College of Fine Arts, MFA in outreach projects and to intern with students each year. The core faculty Writing & Publishing, 36 College Street, Dorothy, a publishing project. Annual Montpelier, VT 05602. (802) 828-8779. includes poets Nikki Giovanni, Jeffrey tuition is $47,300. All first-year students Miciah Gault, Program Director. Mann, and Erika Meitner; and fiction receive a full tuition waiver, health [email protected] writers Edward Falco, Lucinda Roy, and benefits, a $21,625 stipend, and often vcfa.edu/writing-publishing Matthew Vollmer. The program hosts a $2,500 in summer funding. All second- Virginia Commonwealth visiting writers series and the Speakeasy year students receive a teaching assistant- University in Richmond Reading Series, and offers classes in ship, which includes a full tuition waiver, This three-year program, founded in new media writing, playwriting, creative health benefits, and a $21,625 stipend. 1983, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and literary-journal editing. Students are also eligible to apply for and dual genre, and accepts eight new Other features include the print literary two annual fellowships: the Spencer T. students each year. Students can study journal Minnesota Review and the hyper- Olin Fellowship worth $28,000, and the creative nonfiction as part of the dual text journal New River. Annual in-state Chancellors Graduate Fellowship worth genre degree. The core faculty includes tuition is $12,127; out-of-state tuition is $29,500. Submit application materi- poets Gregory Donovan, Kathleen $24,388. All students receive a graduate als, including GRE scores, with a $35 Graber, and David Wojahn; fiction writ- teaching assistantship, which includes a application fee by December 15. Call, ers Susann Cokal, , and full tuition waiver, health benefits, and e-mail, or visit the website for complete Clint McCown; and nonfiction writer a $16,300 stipend in the first year and a requirements and guidelines. Harrison Candelaria Fletcher. The $16,700 stipend in the second and third Washington University in St. Louis, program hosts a visiting writing series. year. Submit application materials with a Writing Program, Campus Box 1122, One Other features include the online journal $75 application fee by January 15, 2016. Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130. Blackbird; opportunities to coordinate the (314) 935-7428. Shannon Rabong, Assis- Cabell First Novelist Award, the Larry Call, e-mail, or visit the website for com- plete requirements and guidelines. tant Director. [email protected] Levis Reading Prize, and the Rebecca english.artsci.wustl.edu/graduate/writing Mitchell Tarumoto Short Fiction Prize; Virginia Tech, English Department, MC _program and stipends to travel or attend literary 0112, Shanks Hall 323, 180 Turner Street Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo This three-year program, founded in 1981, offers degrees in poetry and fic- Community tion, as well as playwriting, and accepts 7 to 10 new students each year. The core Choose a community of writers—the students and faculty includes poets Nancy Eimers the faculty—that will both support and challenge and William Olsen; fiction writer T. you. What kind of activities and events does Geronimo Johnson; fiction and nonfic- tion writer Thisbe Nissen; and poet, the program offer in order to foster and maintain fiction writer, and nonfiction writer that community? Richard Katrovas. The program hosts the Gwen Frostic Reading Series and the

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Gwen Frostic Creative Writing Awards. West Virginia University in and guidelines. Morgantown Other features include the student-run Wichita State University, English Depart- literary magazine Third Coast, the literary This three-year program, founded in ment, 1845 Fairmount Street, Wichita, KS press New Issues Poetry & Prose, and 2001, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Full-Residency 67260. (316) 978-6410. Margaret Dawe, opportunities to collaborate with the and creative nonfiction, and accepts sev- Kalamazoo Book Arts Center and local en to nine new students each year. The Director. [email protected] theater organizations. Annual in-state core faculty includes poets James Harms www.wichita.edu/thisis/home/?u=creativewriting tuition is $6,364 to $9,546; out-of-state and Mary Ann Samyn, fiction writers William Paterson University in Mark Brazaitis and Glenn Taylor, and tuition is $13,479 to $20,218. Most Wayne, New Jersey students receive a three-year teaching nonfiction writers Ellesa High, Kevin assistantship, which includes a full tuition Oderman, Christa Parravani, and Ethel This two- to three-year program, found- waiver and an annual $11,700 stipend. Morgan Smith. The program hosts the ed in 2010, offers degrees in poetry, Submit application materials, includ- annual Sturm Writer-in-Residence; the fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as ing GRE scores, with a $50 application West Virginia Writers’ Workshop; and cross-genre, and accepts 12 new students various outreach activities, including fee by December 15. E-mail or visit the each year. The core faculty includes website for complete requirements and writing groups for middle school stu- poets Timothy Liu and Christopher guidelines. dents and senior citizens. Other features include the student-run literary journal Salerno; fiction writers Marina Budhos, Western Michigan University, English Cheat River Review. Annual in-state Department, 6th Floor, Sprau Tower, Phil Cioffari, John Parras, and Martha tuition is $7,308; out-of-state tuition is Kalamazoo, MI 49008. Nancy Eimers, Witt; and nonfiction writer Brad Gooch. $20,880. All students receive a graduate Professor. [email protected] The program hosts the annual Spring teaching assistantship, which includes a www.wmich.edu/english/creativewriting full tuition waiver and a $15,650 stipend. Writer’s Conference. Other features Western Washington University Submit application materials, including include Map Literary: A Journal of Con- in Bellingham GRE scores, with a $60 application fee temporary Writing & Art, and a program This two-year program, founded in by January 15, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit with the Playwright’s Theater of New the website for complete requirements 2012, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Jersey, through which professional actors and creative nonfiction, as well as multi- and guidelines. and directors arrange live performances genre and hybrid writing, and accepts West Virginia University, P.O. Box 6296, of student writing. Annual in-state seven new students each year. The core 100 Colson Hall, Morgantown, WV tuition is $8,658; out-of-state tuition is faculty includes poets Bruce Beasley and 26506. (304) 293-3107. Mary Ann Samyn, Director. [email protected] Oliver de La Paz; fiction writers Carol $14,268. Approximately three graduate creativewriting.wvu.edu Guess, Kristiana Kahakauwila, Kelly assistantships, which include a full tuition Wichita State University in Magee, and Kathryn Trueblood; and waiver and a stipend of approximately Kansas nonfiction writers Brenda Miller and Su- $6,000 each; and approximately three This three-year program, founded in zanne Paola. The program hosts visiting 1974, offers degrees in poetry and fic- teaching assistantships, which include writers and publishers, and the annual tion, and accepts eight new students each a partial tuition waiver and a stipend of Scholars’ Week. Other features include year. The core faculty includes poets approximately $3,000 each, are available the student-run literary magazine Bell- Albert Goldbarth and Sam Taylor, and each year. Submit application materials ingham Review. Annual in-state tuition is fiction writers Margaret Dawe and Amy with a $50 application fee (waived with $8,715; out-of-state tuition is $18,708. Parker. The program hosts the Writ- Up to 16 teaching assistantships, which ing Now Reading Now reading series. a campus visit); admissions are made on include a full tuition waiver and a stipend Other features include the student-run a rolling basis. Call, e-mail, or visit the of approximately $12,000, are available literary journals Mikrokosmos and Mojo, website for complete requirements and each year. Submit application materi- and opportunities for one-on-one tutori- guidelines. als with visiting writers. Annual in-state als, including GRE scores, with a $100 tuition is $4,927; out-of-state tuition is William Paterson University, English application fee by January 15, 2016. Call, $12,100. All students receive a teaching Department, 300 Pompton Road, Wayne, e-mail, or visit the website for complete assistantship or creative writing fellow- NJ 07470. (973) 720-2254. John Parras, requirements and guidelines. ship, which includes a full tuition waiver Professor. [email protected] Western Washington University, English and an $8,500 stipend. An additional www.wpunj.edu/mfa Department, MS 9055, Bellingham, WA creative writing fellowship worth $600 98225. (360) 650-2013. Allison Giffen, is available each year. Submit application Contact. [email protected] materials with a $50 application fee by MFA Nation 2016 is written by chss.wwu.edu/english/department-english-mfa February 1, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit DANA ISOKAWA, assistant editor of -creative-writing the website for complete requirements Poets & Writers Magazine.

33 POETS & WRITERS The MFA Map A Full-Residency Index THE WEST

Arizona State University in Tempe, 2 Boise State University in Idaho, 2 THE MIDWEST Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, 3 California College of the Arts in San Francisco, 4 Butler University in Indianapolis, 3 California Institute of the Arts in , 4 Columbia College Chicago in Illinois, 6 California State University in Long Beach, 4 Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, 6 Chapman University in Orange, California, 4 Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, 9 Colorado State University in Fort Collins, 5 Indiana University in Bloomington, 10 Eastern Washington University in Spokane, 7 Iowa State University in Ames, 10 Minnesota State University in Mankato, 12 Fresno State in California, 8 Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Akron, 13 Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, 12 Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Cleveland, 13 New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, 12 Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Kent, 13 Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, 13 Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Youngstown, 13 Oregon State University in Corvallis, 15 Northern Michigan University in Marquette, 14 Saint Mary’s College of California in Moraga, 16 Ohio State University in Columbus, 14 San Diego State University in California, 16 Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, 15 San Francisco State University in California, 17 Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, 17 San José State University in California, 17 University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, 23 University of Alaska in Fairbanks, 19 University of Iowa in Iowa City, 23 University of Arizona in Tucson, 19 University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program in Iowa City, 23 University of California in Riverside, 21 University of Kansas in Lawrence, 23

University of California in San Diego, 21 University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, 24 University of Colorado in Boulder, 21 University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, 25 University of Idaho in Moscow, 22 University of Missouri in Kansas City, 25 University of Montana in Missoula, 26 University of Missouri in St. Louis, 25 University of Nevada in Las Vegas, 26 University of Notre Dame in Indiana, 27

University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, 26 Universitiy of Wisconsin in Madison, 31 University of Oregon in Eugene, 27 Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, 32 University of San Francisco in California, 28 Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, 32 University of Washington in Bothell, 30 Wichita State University in Kansas, 33 University of Washington in Seattle, 30 University of Wyoming in Laramie, 31 Western Washington University in Bellingham, 33 KEY COST OF LIVING Very Very High (25% or more above) Very High (16% to 24% above) High (6% to 15% above) Average (between 5% below and 5% above) INTERNATIONAL Low (6% to 15% below) Kingston University in London, 11 Very Low (16% to 24% below) Very Very Low (25% or more below) (Per www.bestplaces.net; reference point is Wilmgton, North Carolina, taken to represent the U.S. average.)

POETS & WRITERS 34 CANADA THE NORTHEAST

University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, 20 Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, 2 University of Guelph-Humber in Toronto, Canada, 22 Boston University in Massachusetts, 3 University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, 29 Brooklyn College in New York, 3 Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, 3 The MFA Map Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 5 City College of New York in New York City, 5 College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, 5 Columbia University in New York City, 6 Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, 6 Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, 7 Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, 9 Hunter College in New York City, 10 Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York, 11 Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, 11 The New School in New York City, 12 New York University in New York City, 13 Queens College in Flushing, New York, 15 Rosemont College in Pennsylvania, 16 THE CENTRAL SOUTH Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey, 16 Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, 16 Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, 11 Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, 17 McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, 11 Stony Brook University in Southampton, New York, 18 Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, 14 Syracuse University in New York, 18 Texas State University in San Marcos, 18 Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 18 University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, 19 University of Massachusetts in Amherst, 24 University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, 20 University of Massachusetts in Boston, 24 University of Central Arkansas in Conway, 21 University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, 27 University of Houston in Texas, 22 Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier, 31 University of Mississippi in Oxford, 25 William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, 33 University of New Orleans in Louisiana, 27 University of Tennessee in Knoxville, 28 University of Texas in Austin (Michener Center), 28 University of Texas in Austin (New Writers Project), 29 University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg and Brownsville, 29 University of Utah in Salt Lake City, 29 Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, 31

THE SOUTHEAST University of Maryland in College Park, 24 University of Miami in Florida, 24 University of North Carolina in Wilmington, 27 American University in Washington, D.C., 2 University of South Carolina in Columbia, 28 Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, 7 University of South Florida in Tampa, 28 Florida International University in North Miami, 8 University of Virginia in Charlottesville, 30 Florida State University in Tallahassee, 8 Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, 32 George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, 8 Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, 32 Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, 9 West Virginia University in Morgantown, 33 Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, 9 Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, 10 North Carolina State University in Raleigh, 13 Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, 14 University of Baltimore in Maryland, 20 University of Central Florida in Orlando, 21 University of Florida in Gainesville, 22

THE WEST

Antioch University in Culver City, California, 37 Goddard College (Port Townsend, Washington), 40 Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 40 Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles, 41 Northwest Institute of Literary Arts in Whidbey Island, Washington, 42 Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, 42 The Pacific University (Forest Grove and Seaside, Oregon), 42 Seattle Pacific University (Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Whidbey Island, Washington), 44 Sierra Nevada University in Incline Village, Nevada, 44 University of Alaska in Anchorage, 45 University of California in Riverside (Rancho Mirage), 45 MFA Western State Colorado University in Gunnison, 47 THE MIDWEST

Ashland University in Ohio, 37 Augsburg College in Minneapolis, 37 Map Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri, 41 A Low-Residency Index THE CENTRAL SOUTH Murray State University in Kentucky, 41 Sewanee School of Letters in Tennessee, 44 INTERNATIONAL Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, 44

Arcadia University (Edinburgh), 37 THE NORTHEAST Ashland University (Paris), 37 Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, , 37 Cedar Crest College (various European cities), 38 Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania, 37 Fairleigh Dickinson University (Oxfordshire, England), 39 Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 38 Kingston University in England, 40 in Vermont, 38 New York University (Paris), 42 Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 39 Queens University (Santiago, Chile), 43 Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, 39 Spalding University (Rome), 44 Fairfield University (Enders Island, Connecticut), 39 University of New Orleans (various international cities), 46 Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey, 39 University of Southern Maine (Dingle and Howth, Ireland), 46 Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, 40 West Virginia Wesleyan (Dublin), 47 Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 41 New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, 41 CANADA Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 43 Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 44 University of British Columbia in Vancouver, 45 Southern New Hampshire University (Whitefield), 44 University of Southern Maine (Brunswick and Freeport), 46 Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier, 46 Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, 47 NOTE

Low-residency programs are indexed according THE SOUTHEAST to the location of each of their residencies. Some programs offer residencies in locations different Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 39 from that of their administrative offices; in Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina, 43 these instances, the residency location appears in University of Tampa in Florida, 46 parentheses. Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North Carolina, 46 West Virginia Wesleyan in Buckhannon, 47

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Albertus Magnus College residency; admissions are made there- to attend a summer residency in Paris. This two- to three-year program, after on a rolling basis. Call, e-mail, or The core faculty includes poets Angie founded in 2010, offers degrees in po- visit the website for complete require- Estes, Stephen Haven, Mark Irwin, etry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, and ments and guidelines. Alex Lemon, Mark Neely, and Ruth L. accepts up to 10 new students each year. Antioch University, MFA in Creative Writ- Schwartz; fiction writers William Hay- Students attend three Saturday sessions ing, 400 Corporate Pointe, Culver City, wood Henderson and E. J. Levy; and each semester at Albertus Magnus Col- CA 90230. (310) 578-1080, ext. 312. Steve nonfiction writers Jill Christman, Steven lege in New Haven, Connecticut. The Heller, Chair. [email protected] Harvey, Thomas Larson, Joe Mackall, core faculty includes poets Charles Raf- www.antiochla.edu/academics/mfa-creative Leila Philip, and Robert Root. The ferty and Paul Robichaud, fiction writer -writing program hosts the River Teeth Nonfic- Sarah Harris Wallman, and nonfiction tion Conference and the Ashland Poetry writer Eric Schoek. The program hosts Arcadia University Workshop weekends. Other features a visiting writers series. Annual tuition This two-year program, founded in include the literary journal River Teeth is $9,594. No fellowships are available. 2011, offers degrees in poetry and fic- and the Ashland Poetry Press. Annual Submit application materials with a $50 tion, and accepts 20 new students each tuition is approximately $15,000. The application fee; admissions are made on year. Students attend three weeklong fee for each residency is $700 to $1,000. a rolling basis. Call, e-mail, or visit the residencies, in August and January Up to three editorial assistantships website for complete requirements and at the Arcadia University campus in worth $3,300 each are available each guidelines. Glenside, Pennsylvania; and in July in year. Submit application materials with a Edinburgh, Scotland. The core faculty Albertus Magnus College, 700 Prospect $30 application fee by September 15 for includes poets Genevieve Betts and Street, New Haven, CT 06515. (203) 773- the spring term or by May 15, 2016, for James Warner; and fiction writers Paul 8505. Sarah Harris Wallman, Contact. the summer term. Call, e-mail, or visit Elwork, Stephanie Feldman, Joshua [email protected] the website for complete requirements Isard, Tracey Levine, and Eric Smith. www.albertus.edu/graduate-degrees/graduate and guidelines. The program hosts readings and discus- -degree-programs/mfa Ashland University, 401 College Avenue, sions with writers and publishers. Other Antioch University Ashland, OH 44805. (419) 289-5957. features include the student-run online Wendy Hall, MFA Administrative This two-year program, founded in literary journal Marathon Literary Review. Director. [email protected] 1997, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Annual tuition is $12,960. All students www.ashland.edu/mfa and creative nonfiction, as well as writ- are eligible for graduate assistantships ing for young people, and accepts 52 worth $14 per hour. Funding opportuni- Augsburg College new students each year. Students attend ties worth $1,000 to $3,000 are available This two- to three-year program, two ten-day residencies each year, in each year. Submit application materials founded in 2013, offers degrees in June and December, at the Antioch with a $25 application fee (fee waivers poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, University Los Angeles campus in Cul- are available for applicants who meet and cross-genre, as well as playwriting ver City. The core faculty includes poet with a faculty member before applying) and screenwriting, and accepts 18 new Jenny Factor and fiction and nonfiction by March 1, 2016; regular admissions students each year. Students attend one writers Steve Heller and Bernadette are made thereafter on a rolling basis. 10-day residency each year, in July/Au- Murphy. The program offers a social Call, e-mail, or visit the website for gust, at the Augsburg College campus in justice focus and opportunities to work complete requirements and guidelines. Minneapolis. The core faculty includes for the online literary journal poet Heid E. Erdrich; fiction writers Lunch Arcadia University, MFA in Creative Writ- Stephan Eirik Clark, Cass Dalglish, Ticket. All students are required to con- ing, 450 South Easton Road, Glenside, and Cheri Johnson; creative nonfiction duct a community-focused field study. PA 19038. (267) 620-4886. Joshua Isard, Annual tuition is approximately $16,650. writers Jack El-Hai, Neal Karlen, and Director. [email protected] Approximately 20 percent of first-year Sarah Myers; and poet and nonfiction www.arcadia.edu/mfa-creative-writing.htm students receive scholarships between writer Cary Waterman. The program $1,000 and $5,000 each. Submit applica- Ashland University hosts a visiting writers series, and offers tion materials with a $60 application fee This two-year program, founded in concentrations in teaching practice (fee waivers are available for applicants 2007, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, and theory, translation, and publishing. who attend an informational session and creative nonfiction, and accepts Other features include Howling Bird in-person or online) by February 15, 22 new students each year. Students Press. Annual tuition is $13,706. The 2016, for the June 2016 residency and by attend a 14-day residency each summer annual residency fee is approximately August 15, 2016, for the December 2016 in Ashland, Ohio, and have the option $1,000. Students enrolled in the publish-

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ing concentration receive a partial tuition writer Renee Gladman; and nonfiction Daniel, Major Jackson, Ed Ochester, and waiver worth $2,400. Submit applica- writer David Levi Strauss. Students Mark Wunderlich; fiction writers Angie tion materials with a $50 application fee meet one-on-one with faculty from all Cruz, David Gates, Amy Hempel, Bret (there is no application fee for online six disciplines, and conduct small-group Anthony Johnston, Alice Mattison, Jill submissions) by the priority deadline of intradiscipline caucuses and school-wide McCorkle, Askold Melnyczuk, Brian February 1, 2016; admissions are made critiques. Annual tuition is $21,280. Morton, Rachel Pastan, Lynne Sharon thereafter on a rolling basis. Call, e-mail, Ninety percent of students receive finan- Schwartz, and Paul Yoon; and nonfiction or visit the website for complete require- cial aid, averaging $8,000 per student. writers Benjamin Anastas, Sven Birk- ments and guidelines. Up to four teaching fellowships, worth erts, Susan Cheever, Dinah Lenney, and Augsburg College, MFA in Creative $2,000 each semester, are available. Peter Trachtenberg. The program hosts Writing Program, CB 318, 2211 Riverside Submit application materials with a $65 a nightly reading series and a visiting Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55454. (612) application fee by January 15, 2016. Call, writers series, as well as lectures, craft 330-1778. Kathleen Matthews, Contact. e-mail, or visit the website for complete sessions, and publishing courses. Other [email protected] requirements and guidelines. features include an annual anthology of www.augsburg.edu/mfa Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate work by graduating students. Annual tuition is $19,540. Up to 10 scholarships Bard College School of the Arts, P.O. Box 5000, 30 Campus Road, Annandale-on-Hudson, worth $2,000 to $5,000 each are available This three-year program, founded in NY 12504. (845) 758-7481. each year. Submit application materials 1981, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, [email protected] with a $70 application fee ($100 for dual- and creative nonfiction, as well as film www.bard.edu/mfa genre students) by September 1 for the and video, music and sound, painting, winter term or by March 1, 2016, for the photography, and sculpture, and accepts Bennington College summer term. Call, e-mail, or visit the four new writing students each year. Stu- This two-year program, founded in website for complete requirements and dents attend one eight-week residency 1994, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, guidelines. each year from June to July at Bard and creative nonfiction, as well as dual Bennington College, Writing Seminars, College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New genre, and accepts 25 new students each

Low-Residency One College Drive, Bennington, VT York. The core faculty includes poets year. Students attend two 10-day resi- 05201. (802) 440-4452. Dawn Dayton, Anselm Berrigan, Robert Fitterman, Ann dencies each year, in January and June, in Program Coordinator. Lauterbach, Anna Moschovakis, Roberto Bennington, Vermont. The core faculty [email protected] Tejada, and Matvei Yankelevich; fiction includes poets April Bernard, David www.bennington.edu/mfawriting Cedar Crest College This two- to three-year program, Notes founded in 2012, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as dual genre, and accepts 10 to 12 new students each year. Students attend one two-week residency each year in July, which rotates between European cities such as Dublin, Barcelona, and Vi- enna. The location of the 2016 residency has not yet been determined. The core faculty includes poets Jeffrey Greene and Gwyneth Lewis; fiction writers Robert Antoni, David Bezmozgis, Aleksander Hemon, Jake Lamar, Fred Leebron, Dinaw Mengestu, and Jayne Anne Phillips; and nonfiction writer Kathryn Rhett. The program offers monthly craft webinars and an optional spring meet- up; this year’s meet-up will take place at the AWP Conference in Los Angeles in March/April 2016. Annual tuition is $12,150. The fee for the residency is $2,750. Two scholarships worth $1,500 each year are available each year. Submit application materials with a $50 applica- tion fee by December 1 for the spring term; April 1, 2016, for the summer term; or by July 31, 2016, for the fall term. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for

POETS & WRITERS 38 MFA PROGRAMS complete requirements and guidelines. Jim Minick and Dan Wakefield; poet Graduate Studies, 36 Madison Avenue, Cedar Crest College, Pan-European Low and nonfiction writer Richard Tilling- Madison, NJ 07940. (973) 408-3016. Residency MFA Program, 100 College hast; and fiction and nonfiction writers Sean Nevin, Director. [email protected] Drive, Allentown, PA 18104. (610) C. Michael Curtis and Susan Tekulve. www.drew.edu/mfa 606-4666, ext. 3474. Robert Wilson, The program hosts a reading series, Fairfield University one-on-one manuscript consultations Associate Provost. This two-year program, founded in [email protected] with editors and agents, and panels on 2008, offers degrees in poetry, fic- mfa.cedarcrest.edu publishing, editing, and freelance writ- tion, and creative nonfiction, as well ing. Other features include the student- Chatham University as playwriting and screenwriting, and run South 85 Journal, and up to three This two-year program, founded in accepts 20 to 30 new students each year. travel stipends to attend the annual AWP Concentrations are offered in publishing 2009, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Conference, worth $400 each. Annual and creative nonfiction, and accepts nine and editing, spiritual writing, and literary tuition with fees is $12,000. The optional health and healing. Students attend two new students each year. Students attend room and board fee for both residen- one 10-day residency each August at nine-day residencies each year, in July cies is $1,200 to $1,500. Up to three and December, on Enders Island, off Chatham University’s Shadyside Campus teaching assistantships worth $1,500 to in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The core the coast of Stonington, Connecticut. $3,000 each are available to second-year Residencies are occasionally available faculty includes poets Dilruba Ahmed students each semester. Two C. Michael and Joy Katz; fiction writers Kathy abroad in Florence, Italy, and Galway, Publishing Internships with Hub City Ireland. The core faculty includes poets

Ayres, Karen Bender, and Sherrie Flick; Low-Residency Press worth $500 each are available to Carol Ann Davis, William B. Patrick, nonfiction writers Melanie Fox and second-year students each year. Work Lori Jakiela; and poets and nonfiction and Baron Wormser; fiction writers scholarships worth from $500 to $800 Rachel Basch, Alan Davis, Eugenia Kim, writers Sheila Squillante and Sheryl St. each are available each year. Submit Germain. The program offers op- Karen Osborn, Hollis Seamon, and Mi- application materials with a $40 applica- chael C. White; and nonfiction writers portunities to study with a dual-genre tion fee by October 1 for the January focus, concentrate in genres such as Da Chen, Sonya Huber, and Kim Dana residency, or by February 15, 2016, for food writing and children’s writing, take Kupperman. The program offers a post- the June residency. Call, e-mail, or visit field seminars abroad, and transfer into graduate training program for teaching the website for complete requirements Chatham University’s full-residency MFA at the college level, internships at the and guidelines. program. Other features include the literary magazine Mason’s Road, and in- student-run literary journal Fourth River, Converse College, Low Residency MFA, ternships with faculty members who run which focuses on nature and place-based 580 East Main Street, Spartanburg, SC presses. Annual tuition is $15,900. The writing. Annual tuition is approximately 29302. (864) 596-9678. Rick Mulkey, fee for each residency is $1,075. One $16,500. No fellowships are available. Director. [email protected] merit-based scholarship worth $5,000 Submit application materials with a $45 www.converse.edu/mfa each semester, need-based scholarships application fee (there is no fee for online Drew University worth up to $3,500 each semester, and applications); admissions are made on This two- to three-year program, one assistantship worth $6,000 each year a rolling basis. Call, e-mail, or visit the founded in 2008, offers degrees in poetry are available. Students can apply for the website for complete requirements and and poetry in translation, and accepts up Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) option, guidelines. to 15 new students each year. Students through which they receive a semester’s Chatham University, MFA Program, attend two 10-day residencies each year, worth of credits for previous publica- Lindsay House, 1 Woodland Road, in January and June, at the Drew Uni- tions or writing experience; PLA students Pittsburgh, PA 15232. (412) 365-1685. versity campus in Madison, New Jersey. complete their degree in three semesters. Submit application materials with a $60 Sheila Squillante, Associate Director. The core faculty includes poets and application fee; admissions are made on [email protected] translators Aracelis Girmay, Anne Marie a rolling basis. Call, e-mail, or visit the www.chatham.edu/ccps/mfa Macari, Jane Mead, Alicia Ostriker, website for complete requirements and Sean Nevin, Ira Sadoff, Gerald Stern, Converse College guidelines. Judith Vollmer, Michael Waters, and This two-year program, founded in Fairfield University, Graduate Admission, 2007, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Ellen Doré Watson. The program hosts 1073 North Benson Road, Fairfield, CT and creative nonfiction, as well as young a visiting writers series, readings, and 06824. (203) 254-4000. Sonya Huber, adult fiction and environmental writing, an alumni weekend. Annual tuition is Program Director. [email protected] and accepts 18 new students each year. $16,864. Partial tuition waivers are avail- www.fairfield.edu/mfa Students attend two nine-day residen- able; K-12 educators and students over cies each year, in January and June, at 62 years old receive a quarter-tuition Fairleigh Dickinson University Converse College in Spartanburg, South waiver. Submit application materials This two- to three- year program, Carolina. The core faculty includes with a $35 application fee by October founded in 2002, offers degrees in poets Suzanne Cleary, Denise Duhamel, 15 for the January residency or by April poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and Albert Goldbarth, and Rick Mulkey; 3, 2016, for the June residency. Call, translation, as well as writing for young fiction writers Marlin Barton, Thomas e-mail, or visit the website for complete adults, and accepts 30 new students each Hays, Cary Holladay, Robert Olmstead, requirements and guidelines. year. Students have the option to com- and Leslie Pietrzyk; nonfiction writers Drew University, Caspersen School of plete a single-genre degree in two years

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or more, and a dual-genre concentration Worden State Park in Port Townsend, and Claire Vaye Watkins; and nonfiction in three years or more. Students attend Washington. The core faculty for the writers Melissa Febos, Chip Livingston, two 10-day residencies each year. The Vermont campus includes poets Jan and Elissa Washuta. The program offers January residency takes place at Fairleigh Clausen, Beatrix Gates, Bhanu Kapil, an emphasis on Native American and Dickinson University’s Wroxton campus and Jane Wohl; fiction writers Rebecca First Nations writing, hosts a visiting in Oxfordshire, England; the August Brown, Douglas A. Martin, John McMa- writers series, and offers free multi-genre residency takes place at the Florham nus, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, and Darcey workshops twice each semester in Seattle campus in Madison, New Jersey. The Steinke; and nonfiction writers Kenny and another city (partially selected by core faculty includes poets Renée Ashley, Fries, Michael Klein, Nicola Morris, and students) with . Other David Daniel, Kathleen Graber, and Richard Panek. The core faculty for the features include the student-edited H. L. Hix; fiction writers Ellen Akins, Washington campus includes poet Elena online journal Mud City. Annual tuition Jeffery Renard Allen, Rebecca Chace, Georgiou and fiction writers Aimee Liu, is $9,360. The fee for each residency is Walter Cummins, Donna Freitas, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, and Vic- $1,200 for first-year students and $1,800 David Grand, Thomas E. Kennedy, toria Nelson. The program hosts visiting for second-year students. Five Lannan Eliot Schrefer, and Rene Steinke; and authors and publishing professionals and Foundation scholarships, two Truman nonfiction writer Minna Proctor. The the alumni-only Clockhouse Writers’ Capote Trust fellowships, and one Mor- program hosts visiting writers and pub- Conference and Retreat. Other features ris Foundation fellowship, each worth lishing professionals from London and include opportunities to work with the $5,000, are available each year. To be New York City to meet with students. Vermont campus radio and online sta- eligible for funding, submit application Other features include opportunities to tion WGDR, the student-run literary materials with a $25 application fee by work with the Literary Review. Annual journal Pitkin Review, and the alumni-run February 1, 2016; regular admissions are tuition is $17,508. Two scholarships literary journal Clockhouse. Annual tuition worth $7,000 each; two second-year is $18,160. Engaged Artist Awards worth made on a rolling basis. Call, e-mail, or graduate assistantships with the Literary $2,000 each and other institutional visit the website for complete require- Review worth $4,377 each; two first-year scholarships and grants are available each ments and guidelines. graduate assistantships at the Literary year. For priority consideration, submit Institute of American Indian Arts, MFA Low-Residency Review worth $4,377 each; and Provost application materials by October 15 for in Creative Writing, 83 Avan Nu Po Road, Scholarships worth up to $4,800 each the spring term or by April 1, 2016, for Santa Fe, NM 87508. (505) 424-2365. Jon are available each year. To be eligible for the fall term; there is no application fee. Davis, Director. [email protected] funding, submit application materials For regular admissions, submit applica- iaia.edu/academics/mfa-in-creative-writing with a $40 application fee (there is no fee tion materials with a $65 application fee for online submissions) by October 15 by November 15 for the spring term Kingston University for the January residency or by April 30, and May 1, 2016, for the fall term. Call, This two-year program, founded in 2016, for the August residency; the regu- e-mail, or visit the website for complete 2009, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, lar application deadlines are November requirements and guidelines. and nonfiction, as well as playwriting 15 for the January residency and June Goddard College, MFA Program, 123 and screenwriting, and accepts two new 15, 2016, for the August residency. Call, Pitkin Road, Plainfield, VT 05667. (802) students each year. Students attend e-mail, or visit the website for complete 322-1619. David De Lucca, Senior two weeklong residencies each year, in requirements and guidelines. Admissions Counselor. January and September, at the Kingston Fairleigh Dickinson University, MFA in [email protected] University campus in Kingston, Eng- Creative Writing, 285 Madison Avenue, www.goddard.edu/mfa-creative-writing land. The core faculty includes poets Oli M-MS3-01, Madison, NJ 07940. (973) Institute of American Indian Hazzard and Hannah Lowe; fiction writ- 443-8632. Rene Steinke, Director. Arts ers Diran Adebayo, Adam Baron, and [email protected] James Miller; and fiction and nonfiction This two-year program, founded in mfa.fdu.edu writers Meg Jensen and Wendy Vaizey. 2013, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Goddard College and creative nonfiction, as well as screen- The program hosts a reading series, a This two-year program, founded in writing, and accepts 30 new students writers-in-residence program, a seminar 1976, offers a degree in creative writing, each year. Students attend two eight-day series, master classes, and opportuni- and accepts 45 new students each year. residencies each year, in January and ties to meet with agents, editors, and Coursework is offered in poetry, fiction, July, at the Institute of American Indian publishers. Other features include the lit- and creative nonfiction, as well as genre Arts campus in Santa Fe, New Mexico. erary magazine Ripple, and opportunities fiction, young adult fiction, graphic novel The core faculty includes poets Sherwin to teach undergraduates at the university. writing, hybrid and experimental forms, Bitsui, Natalie Diaz, Santee Frazier, Annual tuition for European Union nature writing, playwriting, screenwrit- Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Joan Kane, James (EU) residents is £7,200; tuition for non- ing, travel writing, writing for television, Thomas Stevens, and Orlando White; EU residents is £13,000 (approximately and libretto. Students attend two eight- fiction writers Sherman Alexie, Ramona $20,280). For the 2016–2017 year, day residencies each year, and can choose Ausubel, Marie-Helene Bertino, Amanda submit application materials by August to attend January and June residencies Boyden, Joseph Boyden, Manuel Gonza- 31, 2016. There is no application fee. at the campus in Plainfield, Vermont, les, , Pam Houston, Derek E-mail or visit the website for complete or February and July residencies at Fort Palacio, Ismet Prcic, , guidelines and requirements.

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Kingston University, Creative Writing MFA, London Penhryn Road, Expenses Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey Are there additional expenses not covered by tuition, KT12EE, England. James Miller, Contact. [email protected] such as residency or housing fees? Determine www.kingston.ac.uk/postgraduate-course/creative approximately how much you will actually be paying -writing-low-residency-mfa before you apply. Lesley University This two-year program, founded in 2003, offers degrees in poetry, fic- online or on campus in St. Charles, visit the website for complete require- tion, and creative nonfiction, as well Missouri. The core faculty includes poets ments and guidelines. as writing for stage and screen, and Kelli Allen and Eve Jones; fiction writers Mount Saint Mary’s University, Doheny writing for young people, and accepts Wm. Anthony Connolly, Tony D’Souza, Campus, 10 Chester Place, Los Angeles, 45 new students each year. Students and Zachary Tyler Vickers; and nonfic- CA 90007. (213) 477-2800. Johnny Payne, attend two nine-day residencies each tion writer Catherine Rankovic. The Director. [email protected] year, in January and June, at the Lesley program hosts a reading series, round- University campus in Cambridge, Mas- www.msmu.edu/graduate-programs/creative table readings, and alumni workshops. -writing sachusetts. The core faculty includes Other features include the student-run poets Erin Belieu, Sharon Bryan, literary magazine Lindenwood Review. Murray State University Low-Residency Teresa Cader, Rafael Campo, Steven Annual tuition is $10,872. Students over This two- to four-year program, founded Cramer, Joan Houlihan, Cate Marvin, 60 years old receive a half-tuition waiver; in 2005, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Adrian Matejka, and Kevin Prufer; fic- primary and secondary education teach- and creative nonfiction, and accepts 15 tion writers Tony Eprile, Laurie Foos, ers receive a partial tuition waiver worth new students each year. Students attend Rachel Kadish, Hester Kaplan, Michael approximately $1,440. Submit applica- two nine-day residencies each year, in Lowenthal, William Lychack, Christina tion materials with a $30 application fee; January and July, at Murray State Uni- Shea, and A. J. Verdelle; and nonfiction admissions are made on a rolling basis. versity in Murray, Kentucky, followed writers Jane Brox, Rachel Manley, Ro- Call, e-mail, or visit the website for com- land Merullo, Kyoko Mori, and Pamela by a semester-long tutorial with a faculty plete requirements and guidelines. Petro. The program offers an interdis- mentor. The core faculty includes poets ciplinary focus; all students complete Lindenwood University, MFA in Writing Nickole Brown, Blas Falconer, Gary an interdisciplinary project such as a Program, 400 South Kingshighway, St. Jackson, and Jeffrey Skinner; fiction publishing or teaching internship, or Charles, MO 63301. (636) 949-4524. writers Tommy Hays, Dale Ray Phillips, study in another genre. Annual tuition Beth Mead, Director. and Lynn Pruett; and nonfiction writers is $18,120. The fee for each residency is [email protected] Riley Hanick, Karen Salyer McElmurray, $350. Merit scholarships worth $2,000 www.lindenwood.edu/accelerateddegreeprograms and Elena Passarello. The program hosts to $5,000 each are available for one to /writing a visiting writers series. All students re- ceive editorial internships at the student- two semesters. To be eligible for fund- Mount Saint Mary’s University ing, submit application materials with a run literary journal New Madrid. Annual This two-year program, founded in in-state tuition is $8,676; out-of-state $50 application fee by September 1 for 2014, offers degrees in poetry, fic- the January residency or by March 1, tuition is $24,444. Students from Ala- tion, and creative nonfiction, as well as 2016, for the June residency; admissions bama, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, screenwriting, young adult literature, are made thereafter on a rolling basis. and Tennessee receive regional tuition playwriting, and bilingual (English and Call, e-mail, or visit the website for discounts. One Jesse Stuart Fellowship Spanish) creative writing, and accepts 12 complete requirements and guidelines. worth $7,000 is occasionally available. new students each year. Students attend Submit application materials with a $50 Lesley University, MFA Creative Writing six nonconsecutive weekend residen- application fee by October 1 for the Program, 29 Everett Street, Cambridge, cies each year at the Doheny Campus January residency or by April 1, 2016, for MA 02138. (617) 349-8164. of Mount Saint Mary’s University in [email protected] the July residency. Call, e-mail, or visit Los Angeles. The core faculty includes the website for complete requirements www.lesley.edu/master-of-fine-arts/creative bilingual poet and fiction writer Johnny and guidelines. -writing/low-residency Payne, fiction writer Lisa Locascio, Murray State University, English and Lindenwood University and nonfiction writers Nathan Deuel Philosophy Department, 7C Faculty Hall, and Ana Thorne. The program hosts This one- to two-year program, founded Murray, KY 42071. (270) 809-4727. the Los Angeles Writers Conference. in 2000, offers a degree in creative writ- Nita King, Program Assistant. Other features include the online literary ing and accepts approximately 40 new [email protected] students each year. Coursework is of- journal Dry River Review. Annual tuition www.murraystate.edu/mfa fered in poetry, fiction (including literary is $14,922. Scholarships worth $2,500 to fiction and genre fiction), and creative $5,000 each are available on a competi- New Hampshire Institute of Art nonfiction, as well as literary journal tive basis. Submit application materials This two-year program, founded in editing, narrative journalism, and script- with a $50 application fee; admissions are 2013, offers an open-genre degree, and writing. Students can take all coursework made on a rolling basis. Call, e-mail, or accepts up to 12 new students each year.

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Coursework is offered in poetry, prose, website for complete requirements and Brown, Kevin Clark, Oliver de la Paz, hybrid work, and narrative theory, as well guidelines. Greg Glazner, Kevin Goodan, Lola as writing for stage and screen. Students New York University, Creative Writing Haskins, and Peggy Shumaker; fiction attend two 10-day residencies, in January Program, 58 West 10th Street, New writers Suzanne Berne, David Cates, and July, at the New Hampshire Institute York, NY 10011. (212) 998-8816. Zachary Adrianne Harun, Jim Heynen, David of Art campus in Manchester. The core Sussman, Graduate Program Manager. Huddle, Kent Meyers, Scott Nadelson, faculty includes poets MRB Chelko, [email protected] Ann Pancake, and Marjorie Sandor; and Ryan Flaherty, and S Stephanie; prose cwp.fas.nyu.edu/object/cwp.low.residency.paris nonfiction writers Barrie Jean Borich, writers Charlotte Bacon, Joni B. Cole, Stephen Corey, Gary Ferguson, Dinah Northwest Institute of Literary Tim Horvath, Eric Pinder, Mark Sleiter, Lenney, Rebecca McClanahan, Brenda Arts and Justin Taylor; and narrative theorist Miller, Lia Purpura, and Sherry Simp- Monica Bilson. The program hosts a vis- This two-year program, founded in son. The program offers residencies iting writer series, the New Hampshire 2004, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, at various programs and conferences, Poetry Festival, and the New Hampshire and creative nonfiction, as well as writ- including the Vermont Studio Center Writers’ Project Three-Minute Fiction ing for children and young adults, and and the Anderson Center, as part of the Slam. Other features include oppor- accepts 10 to 15 new students each year. “Outside Experience” requirement for tunities to take electives in visual arts, Students attend two 10-day residen- second-year students, which requires cies each year, in January and August, at photography, ceramics, and other artistic students to travel, hold workshops in the Captain Whidbey Inn on Whidbey disciplines. Annual tuition is $18,000. their community, attend conferences, or Island, off the coast of Washington in the All students receive a Merit Scholarship, participate in writing residencies. An- Puget Sound. The core faculty includes which waives up to 15 percent of tuition. nual tuition is $9,450. The fee for each poets David Wagoner and Carolyne Two to three graduate assistantships are residency is $835. Up to 10 scholarships Wright; fiction writers Kathleen Alcalá, available on a competitive basis. Submit worth $1,000 to $8,000 each and up to Bruce Holland Rogers, Wayne Ude, and application materials with a $50 applica- 10 fellowships worth $1,000 to $2,000 Sara Van Arsdale; and nonfiction writers tion fee by November 1 (October 1 with each are available each year. For prior- Lawrence W. Cheek and Ana Maria no fee) for the fall term; the application ity consideration, submit application

Low-Residency Spagna. The program hosts readings deadline for the spring term has not yet and opportunities for students to meet materials with a $40 application fee by been set. Call, e-mail, or visit the website with agents, editors, and publishing November 30; the deadline for regular for complete requirements and guide- professionals. Other features include the admissions is February 15, 2016. Call, lines. Whidbey Island Writers Conference, the e-mail, or visit the website for complete New Hampshire Institute of Art, Office Whidbey Island Writers Association, the requirements and guidelines. of Graduate Admission, 148 Concord literary magazine Soundings Review, and Pacific Lutheran University, Rainer Writ- Street, Manchester, NH 03104. (603) coursework in teaching creative writing. ing Workshop, 12180 Park Avenue South, 836-2151. Monica Bilson, Contact. Annual tuition is $11,550. The fee for Tacoma, WA 98447. (253) 535-7318. Rick [email protected] each residency is $550. One Elizabeth Barot, Director. [email protected] mfa.nhia.edu/creative-writing George Foundation scholarship, which www.plu.edu/mfa New York University in Paris includes a full tuition and fee waiver, is Pacific University available each year. Two quarter-tuition This two-year program, founded in This two-year program, founded in waivers are also available each year. Sub- 2012, offers degrees in poetry and fic- 2004, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, mit application materials with a $50 ap- tion, and accepts approximately 20 new and creative nonfiction, and accepts 50 plication fee by October 1 for the spring students each year. Students attend two new students each year. Students attend term, or by March 15, 2016, for the fall 10-day residencies each year, in January two 10-day residencies each year, in term. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for and July, and one 10-day graduation resi- January and June, and one final 10-day complete requirements and guidelines. dency in Paris. The core faculty includes residency at the end of the program. The poets Catherine Barnett, Mark Doty, Northwest Institute of Literary Arts, June residency takes place at the Pacific Deborah Landau, Meghan O’Rourke, Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA, 5611 University campus in Forest Grove, and Matthew Rohrer; and fiction writers Bayview Road, Langley, WA 98260. Oregon, and the January residency takes Chris Adrian, Nathan Englander, John (360) 331-0307. Susan Janow, place in the beachside resort town of Freeman, Myla Goldberg, Aleksandar Registrar. [email protected] Seaside, Oregon. The core faculty in- Hemon, Katie Kitamura, Helen Schul- www.nila.edu/mfa cludes poets Sandra Alcosser, Ellen Bass, man, Darin Strauss, and Colson White- Pacific Lutheran University Marvin Bell, Eduardo C. Corral, Kwame head. The program hosts a reading This three-year program, founded in Dawes, Vievee Francis, Dorianne Laux, series, lectures, manuscript consultations, 2003, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Joseph Millar, and David St. John; fiction and professional development panels. and creative nonfiction, and accepts 15 writers Steve Amick, Bonnie Jo Camp- Annual tuition is approximately $26,000. new students each year. Students attend bell, Claire Davis, Jack Driscoll, Kather- No fellowships are available. Submit ap- one 10-day residency each year in Au- ine Dunn, Pete Fromm, Frank Gaspar, plication materials with a $100 applica- gust at the Pacific Lutheran University Laura Hendrie, Cate Kennedy, Valerie tion fee by October 15 for the January campus in Tacoma, Washington. The Laken, David Long, John McNally, residency, or by March 15, 2016, for the core faculty includes poets Rick Barot, Benjamin Percy, Mary Helen Stefaniak, July residency. Call, e-mail, or visit the Linda Bierds, David Biespiel, Fleda and Kellie Wellsa; and creative nonfic-

POETS & WRITERS 42 MFA PROGRAMS tion writers Sanjiv Bhattacharya, Judy 2016. Submit application materials with Creech, Sally Keith, Nick Lantz, James Blunt, Debra Gwartney, Scott Korb, and a $50 application fee by October 16 for McKean, Jon Pineda, Robert Polito, Mike Magnuson. The program hosts a the January residency, or by April 15, and Claudia Rankine; fiction writers nightly reading series, lectures, panels, 2016, for the July residency. Call, e-mail, Pinckney Benedict, Jonathan Dee, Myla roundtable discussions, and the annual or visit the website for complete require- Goldberg, Zachary Lazar, Fred Leebron, storytelling event BoxerSlam. Other ments and guidelines. Naeem Murr, Jenny Offill, David Payne, features include the opportunity to take Pine Manor College, Solstice MFA Patricia Powell, Steven Rinehart, Elissa an elective semester in disciplines such Program of Pine Manor College, 400 Schappell, Dana Spiotta, and Ashley as digital publishing, playwriting, or Heath Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467. Warlick; and nonfiction writers Emily screenwriting. Annual tuition is $16,632. (617) 731-7684. Meg Kearney, Director. Fox Gordon, Natalie Kusz, and Su- Two Pearl Scholarships worth $7,500 [email protected] zannah Lessard. The program hosts a each, up to 12 partial scholarships worth www.pmc.edu/mfa biennial alumni conference that offers $1,000 to $5,000 each, and up to two Queens University small workshops with editors and agents. teaching associate positions each worth Other features include the post-graduate This two-year program, founded in approximately $4,000 per semester are One Book semester, during which 2001, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, available each year. Submit application students work on a manuscript with an and creative nonfiction, as well as writing materials with a $50 application fee by editor from a major press. Annual tuition for stage and screen, and accepts ap- September 1 for the spring term, or by is $14,992. No fellowships are available. March 1, 2016, for the fall term. Call, proximately 45 new students each year.

Submit application materials with a $50 Low-Residency e-mail, or visit the website for complete Students attend two weeklong residen- application fee by October 1 for the requirements and guidelines. cies each year, in January and May, at the Queens University campus in Charlotte, spring term; March 1, 2016, for the sum- Pacific University, 530 NW 12th Avenue, mer term; or August 1, 2016, for the fall Portland, OR 97209. (503) 352-1531. North Carolina. Students in the Latin American track of the program attend an term. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for Shelley Washburn, Director. complete requirements and guidelines. [email protected] annual 15-day residency during the sum- Queens University, MFA Program, 1900 www.pacificu.edu/as/mfa mer, which rotates each year between Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, and San- Selwyn Avenue, Charlotte, NC 28274. Pine Manor College tiago. The 2016 Latin America residency (704) 337-2499. Melissa Bashor, Admin- This two-year program, founded in will be in Santiago. The core faculty in- istrative Director. [email protected] 2006, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, cludes poets Cathy Smith Bowers, Morri www.queens.edu/mfa and creative nonfiction, as well as writ- ing for children and young adults, and accepts 25 to 30 new students each year. Students attend two 10-day residencies Notes each year, in January and July, at the Pine Manor College campus in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The core faculty includes poets Kathleen Aguero, Laure- Anne Bosselaar, Nicole Terez Dutton, Anne-Marie Oomen, Dzvinia Orlowsky, and Iain Haley Pollock; fiction writers Jedediah Berry, Venise Berry, Steven Huff, Robert Lopez, Laura Williams McCaffrey, , Renée Watson, Sterling Watson, and David Yoo; and creative nonfiction writers Amy Hoffman, Randall Horton, and Randall Kenan. The program offers applied tracks in pedagogy, arts administration, community outreach, and publishing. Annual tuition is $12,500. Up to 15 need-based scholarships worth $2,000 over two years each are available each year. Four genre-specific fellowships worth $1,000 each are available for the winter/spring term; apply by September 18. The Kurt Brown Fellowship for Di- verse Voices, cosponsored by the literary magazine Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, worth $1,000, is available for the summer/fall term; apply by March 11,

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Seattle Pacific University Sewanee School of Letters basis. Call, e-mail, or visit the website for This two-year program, founded in 2005, This four- to five-year program, founded complete requirements and guidelines. offers degrees in poetry, fiction, and in 2006, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Sierra Nevada University, 999 Tahoe creative nonfiction, and accepts 10 new and creative nonfiction, and accepts ap- Boulevard, Incline Village, NV 89451. students each year. Students attend two proximately 18 new students each year. (775) 881-7520. Sophie Cherry, Contact. 10-day residencies each year. The March Students attend a six-week residency each [email protected] residency takes place on Whidbey Island, summer at the University of the South in www.sierranevada.edu/academics/humanities Washington, and the July/August residen- Sewanee, Tennessee. The faculty changes -social-sciences/mfa-in-creative-writing cy takes place in Santa Fe, New Mexico. each summer; the 2015 faculty included Southern New Hampshire The core faculty includes poets Scott poet Danny Anderson, fiction writers University Cairns and Jeanne Murray Walker, fiction Chris Bachelder and Holly Goddard writers Robert Clark and Gina Ochsner, Jones, and nonfiction writer Diane Thiel. This two-year program, founded in and nonfiction writers Paula Huston and The program hosts a lecture and reading 2006, offers degrees in fiction and Lauren F. Winner. The program offers an series. Annual tuition is $5,284. No fel- creative nonfiction, and accepts 30 to 32 emphasis on writing within the Judeo- lowships are available. Submit application new students each year. Students attend Christian tradition of faith. Other features materials with a $40 application fee; ad- two weeklong residencies each year, include opportunities to participate in missions are made on a rolling basis. Call, in January and June, at the Mountain events hosted by the literary journal Im- e-mail, or visit the website for complete View Grand Resort in Whitefield, New age. Annual tuition and residency fees is requirements and guidelines. Hampshire. The core faculty includes $17,200. Up to four scholarships worth fiction writers Jami Attenberg, Wiley Sewanee School of Letters, University Cash, Ann Garvin, Jo Knowles, Diane $10,000 each are available each year. of the South, 735 University Avenue, Submit application materials with a $50 Les Becquets, Benjamin Nugent, Chine- Sewanee, TN 37383. (931) 598-1636. April lo Okparanta, Lydia Peelle, Katherine application fee by November 15 for the Alvarez, Administrator. March residency or by May 15, 2016, for Towler, Robin Wasserman, and Mitch [email protected] Wieland; and nonfiction writers Richard the July/August residency. Call, e-mail, letters.sewanee.edu or visit the website for complete require- Adams Carey, Craig Childs, Amy Irvine Low-Residency ments and guidelines. Sierra Nevada University McHarg, and Mark Sundeen. The program hosts panels and the literary Seattle Pacific University, MFA Pro- This two-year program, founded in magazine Assignment. Annual tuition is gram, 3307 Third Avenue West, Suite 2012, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, $14,276. The fee for each residency is 318, Seattle, WA 98119. (206) 281-2727. and creative nonfiction, and accepts 15 $1,122. Up to six scholarships worth Aubrey Allison, Program Coordinator. new students each year. Students attend approximately $1,000 to $2,000 each are [email protected] two eight-day residencies each year, in available each year. Submit application spu.edu/mfa January and August, at the Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village, Nevada. The materials with a $40 application fee by Seton Hill University program hosts an international residency October 1 for the January residency or This three-year program, founded in option once every two years; the 2017 by March 1, 2016, for the June residency. 1999, offers a degree in fiction (special- residency will be held in Jamaica. The Call, e-mail, or visit the website for com- izing in popular fiction), and accepts 30 core faculty includes poets Gabriel Fried, plete requirements and guidelines. new students each year. Students attend Nathalie Handal, Lee Herrick, Gailma- Southern New Hampshire University, two five-day residencies each year, in rie Pahmeier, Patricia Smith, and Brian MFA, School of Arts & Sciences, 2500 January and June, at the Seton Hill Uni- Turner; fiction writers Daniel Chacón, North River Road, Manchester, NH versity campus in Greensburg, Pennsyl- Jennine Capó Crucet, Alan Heath- 03106. (603) 626-9100, ext. 2382. vania. The core faculty includes fiction cock, Patrick Hicks, Rebecca Makkai, Lisa Janicki, Administrative Director. writers Michael Arnzen, Lee McClain, Mike McCormack, Joanne Meschery, [email protected] Nicole Peeler, and Albert Wendland. and Peter Mountford; and nonfiction www.snhu.edu/mfa-creative-writing.asp Annual tuition is approximately $15,300. writers Benjamin Busch, Roxane Gay, No fellowships are available. Using Kelle Groom, Paul Lisicky, and Suzanne Spalding University the online submission system, submit Roberts. The program hosts a writers-in- This two-year program, founded in application materials by October 5 for residence series, including the Kundi- 2000, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, the January residency or by March 20, man Writer-in-Residence program, and and creative nonfiction, as well as chil- 2016, for the June residency. There is no offers collaborative courses with the MFA dren’s and young adult literature, play- application fee. Call, e-mail, or visit the program in interdisciplinary arts. Other writing, and screenwriting, and accepts website for complete requirements and features include opportunities to edit and 45 new students each year. Students guidelines. read for Sierra Nevada Review. Annual attend two 10-day residencies each year Seton Hill University, Office of Graduate tuition is $17,604. Six Two Pines Travel and a final 10-day graduation residency. and Adult Studies, Seton Hill Drive, Box Scholarships, two Exceptional Manu- Students can choose among residen- 510F, Greensburg, PA 15601. (800) 826- script Scholarships, and one International cies in May and November, which take 6234. Nicole Peeler, Associate Professor. Scholarship, worth $1,000 to $4,000 place at the Spalding University campus [email protected] each, are available each semester. Submit in Louisville, Kentucky, or a residency www.setonhill.edu/academics/graduate application materials with a $50 applica- in June or July, which takes place in a _programs/fiction tion fee; admissions are made on a rolling different international country each year.

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The 2016 summer residency will take place in Rome; the 2017 summer resi- The Lowdown dency will take place in Barcelona. The Ask faculty, administrators, and alumni for details core faculty includes poets Debra Kang Dean, Kathleen Driskell, Shane McCrae, about the brief residency. In addition to workshops, Maureen Morehead, Greg Pape, and are there one-on-one meetings with writers and Jeanie Thompson; fiction writers Julie other publishing professionals, readings, or other Brickman, K. L. Cook, Leslie Daniels, Pete Duval, Kirby Gann, Rachel M. extracurricular activities? Harper, Silas House, Robin Lippincott, Jody Lisberger, Eleanor Morse, Sena One April Relyea Scholarship worth Canadian application fee for Canadian Jeter Naslund, John Pipkin, and Crystal $500 is available each year. Submit ap- residents, or $159 Canadian (approxi- Wilkinson; nonfiction writers Dianne plication materials with a $75 application mately $121) for international applicants, Aprile and Rebecca Walker; and fiction fee by January 15, 2016. Call, e-mail, or by October 19. Call, e-mail, or visit the and nonfiction writers Elaine Neil Orr, visit the website for complete require- website for complete requirements and Roy Hoffman, Fenton Johnson, Nancy ments and guidelines. guidelines. McCabe, and Neela Vaswani. The pro- gram hosts a reading series in May and University of Alaska in Anchorage, University of British Columbia, Creative November and a post-graduate confer- Creative Writing & Literary Arts, 3211 Writing, Buchanan E-462, 1866 Main ence, SpaldingCon, every November. Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508. Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada. Low-Residency Other features include Fleur-de-Lis (907) 786-4394. Jenny Murray, Program (604) 822-3023. Annabel Lyon, Graduate Press, and opportunities to read for Lou- Coordinator. [email protected] Advisor. [email protected] isville Review. Annual tuition is $16,800. www.uaa.alaska.edu/cwla www.creativewriting.ubc.ca Up to 38 scholarships of approximately University of British Columbia University of California in $800 each and up to 26 graduate as- This two- to five- year program, founded Riverside sistantships worth $600 to $1,800 each in 2005, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, This two-year program, founded in 2008, are available each year. Submit applica- creative nonfiction, and translation, as offers degrees in poetry, fiction, and cre- tion materials with a $30 application fee well as graphic novel writing, playwrit- ative nonfiction, as well as screenwriting, by February 1, 2016, for the spring or ing, screenwriting, and writing for and accepts 35 to 40 new students each summer residency, or by August 1, 2016, children and young adults, and accepts year. Students attend two 10-day residen- for the fall residency. Call, e-mail, or visit 30 new students each year. Students cies each year, in June and December, at the website for complete requirements attend one 10-day residency each July the Rancho Las Palmas Resort in Rancho and guidelines. at the University of British Columbia Mirage, California. The core faculty Spalding University, MFA Program, campus in Vancouver. The core faculty includes poets Jill Alexander Essbaum 851 South Fourth Street, Louisville, KY includes poet Susan Musgrave, fiction and Anthony McCann; fiction writers 40203. (502) 873-4400. Karen Mann, writers Nancy Lee and Annabel Lyon, Elizabeth Crane, Gina Frangello, Tod Administrative Director. and nonfiction writer Wayne Grady. Goldberg, Stephen Graham Jones, Mary [email protected] Students are required to take coursework Otis, Rob Roberge, Mark Haskell Smith, spalding.edu/mfa in three genres. The program hosts an and Mary Yukari Waters; and nonfiction online visiting-writer series. Other fea- writers Emily Rapp, Deanne Stillman, University of Alaska in tures include opportunities to participate Anchorage and David L. Ulin. The program offers in hybrid classes with students enrolled opportunities to meet with agents, edi- This three-year program, founded in in UBC’s full-residency MFA program. tors, and publishers, and the opportunity 2008, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Annual tuition for full-time students to study in more than one genre. Other and creative nonfiction, and accepts ap- is $10,239 Canadian for Canadian features include Coachella Review. Annual proximately 15 new students each year. residents, or $16,890 Canadian (ap- tuition is $14,640. Five Coachella Review Students attend one 13-day residency proximately $12,836) for international editorial fellowships worth $1,500 each each July at the University of Alaska students; annual tuition for part-time and two Founder’s Awards worth $500 campus in Anchorage. The core faculty students is $3,412 Canadian for Ca- each are available each year. Three Bar- includes poet Anne Caston, fiction writer nadian residents, or $5,630 Canadian Jo-Ann Mapson, and nonfiction writer (approximately $4,279) for international bara Seranella Awards worth $1,000 each Sherry Simpson. The program hosts students. Teaching assistantships worth are available each term. Submit applica- a reading series and field trips. Other $2,700 each are available for students tion materials with an $80 application features include the Literary Practicum, to work on-campus in Vancouver. Up fee by February 1, 2016, for the June through which each student designs to 25 Graduate Supportive Initiative residency or by August 1, 2016, for the and conducts a community-based field scholarships worth $2,000 to $3,000 December residency. Call, e-mail, or visit project. Annual in-state tuition is $6,345; each, Endowed Scholarships worth $100 the website for complete requirements out-of-state tuition is $12,960. The fee to $2,150 each, and Booming Ground and guidelines. for each residency is $550 to $1,500. writing mentorship positions worth $23 University of California in Riverside, Three awards worth $750 each are given per hour are available each year. Submit 75080 Frank Sinatra Drive, Palm Desert, for excellence in the thesis each year. application materials with a $98.25 CA 92211. (760) 834-0928. Tod Goldberg,

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Administrative Director. Valdez, Elizabeth Searle, Brandon Som, University of Tampa, Low-Residency [email protected] and Justin Tussing; nonfiction writer MFA Program in Creative Writing, Office palmdesertmfa.ucr.edu T. Fleischmann; poet and fiction writer of Graduate and Continuing Studies, University of New Orleans Alexs Pate; poet and creative nonfiction 401 West Kennedy Boulevard, Box 102F, writer Debra Marquart; poet, fiction writ- Tampa, FL 33606. (813) 257-3514. Lynne This two- to three-year program, er, and creative nonfiction writer David Bartis, Staff Assistant. [email protected] founded in 2000, offers degrees in po- Mura; and fiction and nonfiction writers www.ut.edu/mfacw etry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, and Rick Bass, Jaed Muncharoen Coffin, Su- accepts 10 new students each year. Stu- san Conley, and Suzanne Strempek Shea. Vermont College of Fine Arts dents attend monthlong residencies each The program offers concentrations in This two-year program, founded in summer in international locations such literary craft, critical theory, community 1981, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, as Cork, Ireland; Edinburgh; ; service, creative collaboration, pedagogy, and creative nonfiction, and accepts 50 and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. The and publishing. Annual tuition, fees, and to 60 new students each year. The pro- location for the 2016 residency has not room and board is $11,976. Scholar- gram offers a translation concentration, yet been set. The core faculty includes ships worth $1,000 each are available for as well as opportunities for dual-genre poets John Gery and Carolyn Hembree; students demonstrating outstanding aca- study. Students attend two 10-day resi- fiction writers Fredrick Barton, Barb demic merit or a history of social action dencies each year, in June and Decem- Johnson, and M. O. Walsh; and nonfic- and engagement, and those who are resi- ber, on the VCFA campus in Montpelier, tion writers Randy Bates and Richard dents of Maine or from culturally diverse Vermont. The core faculty includes Goodman. The program features travel backgrounds. To be eligible for funding, poets Ralph Angel, Mark Cox, Mat- excursions and opportunities to read for submit application materials with a $65 thew Dickman, Richard Jackson, Tomás Bayou Magazine. Annual in-state tuition application fee by April 1, 2016; the dead- Q. Morín, Mary Ruefle, Natasha Saje, is $6,090; out-of-state tuition is $19,529. line for regular applications is September Betsy Sholl, Leslie Ullman, and David The residency fee is $4,295. Privateer 1 for the January residency or February 1, Wojahn; fiction writers Trinie Dalton, Graduate Awards, which confer in-state 2016, for the July residency. Call, e-mail, Abby Frucht, LeAnne Howe, David tuition status, are available each year on a or visit the website for complete require- Jauss, Ellen Lesser, Brian Leung, Bret competitive basis. Additional grants of up ments and guidelines. Lott, Clint McCown, Martha South- Low-Residency to $2,000 each are available to cover part gate, Domenic Stansberry, and Nance of the residency fee. Submit application University of Southern Maine, Stone- coast MFA Program, 98 Bedford Street, Van Winckel; and nonfiction writers materials, including GRE scores, with a Portland, ME 04104. (207) 780-4423. Connie May Fowler, , $20 application fee by October 1 for the Barbara Hurd, Patrick Madden, Richard spring term, or by March 15, 2016, for Matt Jones, Administrative Specialist. [email protected] McCann, Sue William Silverman, Larry the fall term. Call, e-mail, or visit the Sutin, and Robert Vivian. The program usm.maine.edu/stonecoastmfa website for complete requirements and offers optional overseas residencies in guidelines. University of Tampa Puerto Rico and Slovenia, and postgrad- University of New Orleans, Creative Writ- This two-year program, founded in uate opportunities such as the Postgrad- ing Workshop Low Residency, English 2012, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, uate Writers’ Conference and the Novel Department, 201 Liberal Arts Building, and creative nonfiction, and accepts 40 Retreat. Other features include opportu- 2000 Lakeshore Drive, New Orleans, to 50 new students each year. Students nities to volunteer for the literary and art LA 70148. (504) 280-6276. M. O. Walsh, attend two 10-day residencies each year, journal Hunger Mountain. Annual tuition Director. [email protected] in January and June, at the University is $20,334. Scholarships are available. www.uno.edu/creative-writing-low-residency-mfa of Tampa campus in Florida. The core Submit application materials with a $75 faculty includes poets Sandra Beasley, application fee; admissions are made on University of Southern Maine Erica Dawson, Donald Morrill, and Alan a rolling basis. Call, e-mail, or visit the This two-year program, founded in 2002, Michael Parker; fiction writers Jessica website for complete requirements and offers degrees in poetry, fiction, and Anthony, Brock Clarke, Mikhail Iossel, guidelines. creative nonfiction, as well as popular Stefan Kiesbye, Kevin Moffett, Josip Vermont College of Fine Arts, 36 College fiction, and accepts 40 to 50 new students Novakovich, Jason Ockert, Jeff Parker, Street, Montpelier, VT 05602. (802) 828- each year. Students attend two 10-day Corinna Vallianatos, and Jennifer Vander- 8589. Ann Cardinal, Director of Student residencies each year, in January and July, bes; and nonfiction writers John Capouya Recruitment. [email protected] on either the coast of Maine or in Ireland. and Tony D’Souza. The program hosts vcfa.edu/writing The January residency takes place in the Lectores Reading Series. Other fea- Freeport, Maine, and Howth, Ireland; tures include opportunities to work with Warren Wilson College the July residency takes place in Bruns- University of Tampa Press and Tampa This two-year program, founded in wick, Maine, and Dingle, Ireland. The Review. Annual tuition is $15,432. The 1976, offers degrees in poetry and fic- core faculty includes poets Jeanne Marie optional housing fee for each residency tion, and accepts 12 to 20 new students Beaumont, Ted Deppe, Martín Espada, is $1,000. Scholarships are available each each semester. Students attend two Stephen Motika, and Eléna Rivera; fic- year. Submit application materials with 10-day residencies each year, in January tion writers Sarah Braunstein, Breena a $40 application fee by November 20 and July, at Warren Wilson College in Clarke, David Anthony Durham, Theo- for the January residency or by April 15, Swannanoa, North Carolina. The faculty dora Goss, Aaron Hamburger, Elizabeth 2016, for the June residency. Call, e-mail, for 2015–2016 includes poets Marianne Hand, Nancy Holder, James Patrick or visit the website for complete require- Boruch, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Stephen Kelly, Michael Kimball, Dolen Perkins- ments and guidelines. Dobyns, Daisy Fried, Jennifer Grotz,

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Brooks Haxton, Rodney Jones, A. Van Brian Clements, E. K. Mortenson, and materials with a $50 application fee by Jordan, James Longenbach, Maurice Lisa L. Siedlarz; fiction writers Sandra June 1, 2016. Call, e-mail, or visit the Manning, Heather McHugh, Martha Rodriguez Barron, Jane Cleland, Matt website for complete requirements. Rhodes, Alan R. Shapiro, Mary Szybist, Debenham, Oscar de los Santos, Sarah Western State Colorado University, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Connie Voisine, Alan Darer Littman, Dan Pope, David Rich, 600 North Adams Street, Taylor Hall, Williamson, Eleanor Wilner, Monica Don Snyder, Tim Weed, and Karen Gunnison, CO 81231. (970) 943- Youn, and C. Dale Young; and fiction Romano Young; and nonfiction writ- 2058. David J. Rothman, Director. writers Dean Bakopoulos, Charles ers David Holub, Kateri Kosek, Joshua [email protected] Baxter, Robert Boswell, Liam Callanan, Pahigian, and Daniel Asa Rose. Students www.western.edu/academics/graduate/creative Christopher Castellani, Lan Samantha chose one creative genre and one practi- -writing Chang, Jeremy Gavron, Lauren Groff, cal field, such as public relations and West Virginia Wesleyan David Haynes, Caitlin Horrocks, Kevin marketing, literary journalism, or techni- McIlvoy, Antonya Nelson, Peter Orner, cal writing, and complete an internship This two-year program, founded in 2011, offers degrees in poetry, fiction, Michael Parker, Robin Romm, Joan or practicum as well as an enrichment and creative nonfiction, and accepts 10 Silber, Dominic Smith, Debra Spark, project. Other features include the to 15 new students each year. Students Sarah Stone, and Peter Turchi. Students student-run online journal Poor Yorick: have the opportunity to take extra se- attend two nine- or ten-day residencies A Journal of Rediscovered Objects. Annual mesters during which they can study the each year, in January and July, and one in-state tuition is $6,492; long poem, the novel, or an additional final residency at the end of the program regional tuition is $9,741; out-of-state genre. Students are also eligible to apply at the West Virginia Wesleyan campus tuition is $18,086. Approximately four Low-Residency for post-graduate semesters in poetry, in Buckhannon, West Virginia; students to eight graduate assistantships worth a fiction, or creative nonfiction. Other fea- can substitute one campus residency with tuition fee waiver and a $1,500 to $4,000 tures include faculty lectures, which have travel to Dublin, Ireland. The core fac- been collected into published antholo- stipend each are available each semes- ulty includes poets Mark DeFoe, Devon gies. Annual tuition is $17,350. The fee ter. One Residency Scholarship worth McNamara, and Doug Van Gundy; for each residency is $475. All students $1,000 and various scholarships worth fiction writers Richard Schmitt and who qualify for federal aid are eligible $500 to $1,500 each are also available Jessie van Eerden; and nonfiction writer for an MFA grant that covers up to 60 each year. To be eligible for funding, Eric Waggoner. The visiting faculty for percent of tuition. A Holden Minority submit application materials with a $50 2015–2016 includes poet and fiction Scholarship, which includes a full tuition application fee by March 1, 2016; regular writer Mary Carroll-Hackett, fiction waiver and fees for four semesters; and admissions are made on a rolling basis. writers Marie Manilla and Carter Sickels, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Graduate Call, e-mail, or visit the website for com- and fiction and nonfiction writer Karen Fellowship in Creative Writing, which plete requirements and guidelines. Salyer McElmurray. The program, which is focused on place-based writing, includes a full tuition waiver, fees for Western Connecticut State University, 181 hosts a reading series. Annual tuition, two semesters, and a $4,000 stipend for White Street, Danbury, CT 06810. (203) a female student, are available each year. which includes room and board for each 837-8876. Brian Clements, Coordinator. residency, is $11,160. Two need- and Submit application materials with a $75 [email protected] merit-based scholarships worth $1,000 to application fee by September 1 for the www.wcsu.edu/writing/mfa $2,000 each are available each year. One January residency or by March 1, 2016, postgraduate teaching fellowship, which for the July residency. Call, e-mail, or Western State Colorado involves teaching three undergraduate visit the website for complete require- University classes at the college per semester and ments and guidelines. This two-year program, founded in 2010, offers degrees in poetry, genre includes a $16,500 stipend, is available Warren Wilson College, MFA Program fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well each year. Submit application materials for Writers, P.O. Box 9000, Asheville, NC as screenwriting for film and television, with a $50 application fee by October 1 28815. (828) 771-3717. Jessica Lane, Proj- for the January residency, or by April 1, and accepts 17 new students each year. ect Manager. [email protected] 2016, for the July residency; admissions Students attend one two-week residency www.wwcmfa.org are made thereafter on a rolling basis. in July at the Western State Colorado Western Connecticut State Call, e-mail, or visit the website for com- University campus in Gunnison, Colo- plete requirements and guidelines. University rado. The core faculty includes poets This two-year program, founded in Ernest Hilbert and David J. Rothman; West Virginia Wesleyan, Graduate 2005, offers degrees in poetry, fic- and fiction writers Russell Davis, Stacia Admissions, 59 College Avenue, Buck- tion, and creative nonfiction, as well as Deutsch, Candace Nadon, and Michaela hannon, WV 26201. (304) 473-8329. journalism, playwriting, screenwriting, Roessner-Herman. The program hosts Jessie van Eerden, Program Director. technical writing, writing for children the Writing the Rockies Conference, and [email protected] and young adults, and public relations offers coursework in writing pedagogy, www.wvwc.edu/mfa and marketing, and accepts 10 to 15 new editing, and criticism. Other features students each year. Students attend two include Western Press Books and the PW.ORG/MFA weeklong residencies each year, in Janu- literary journal THINK. Annual tuition is Visit our MFA Programs database for ary and August, at Western Connecticut approximately $21,000. Up to two schol- details about more than two hundred State University in Danbury, Con- arships worth $10,000 each are available graduate programs in creative writing, necticut. The core faculty includes poets each year for poets. Submit application including MA and PhD programs.

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